supple

In a culture of aggregation and AI summary, the stiffest original thinking still feels as supple as a tone poem, and genuine intellectual ambition akin to a secular miracle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Mr. Washington, star of Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” has one of the richer roles, as the tech overlord who with supple suavity plays upon his friends’ weaknesses and sensitivities to achieve his ends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Their metallic frames covered in supple, lifelike skin, a posse of new Chinese robots meant for companionship can offer users AI-generated conversation or a hand to hold, complete with manicured nails.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

That was all down to Styles' supple and powerful band.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Like all the cadet jackets, it was a soft green, closely fitted so it rested across my shoulders like a second supple skin, and I felt instantly warmer.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The aviation giant said their suppler informed them the installation of fittings on the rear of the plane did not follow the standard.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2023

Mitchell’s prose is suppler and richer than ever, and his ability to conjure a historical milieu he never actually experienced does not falter.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2020

At the beginning, his caricatures verged on the radical — a block of wood for a head — but soon they eased into the suppler, more fluid and confident style of his mature work.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2015

Further "sharp practices" included retrospective discounts, where firms seek to apply discounts to outstanding money owed to a suppler, late payment and discounts for paying on time, FSB said.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2014

His French grew suppler and more docile, answered more truly to the individuality behind it.

From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward

“Energy” seems to operate on wires; it’s taut minimalism, with the supplest layering of sub-bass tones.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022

I stand in awe of Rylance's genius, but the play, written by his wife, Claire van Kampen, struck me as a candle-lighted diversion for the world's supplest barnstormer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2018

Jessica Lange, one of the supplest film actresses of her generation, is the heavy favorite to win her first Tony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2016

It’s a counterintuitive fact that a player with the supplest shot in the NBA, whose overarching quality is feel, has the hands and work habits of a woodchopper.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2016

Rajesh had once been the most promising of the brothers—the nimblest, the supplest, the most charismatic, the most energetic, the most beloved and idolized by my father and his family.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

They make razors and hair products and have donated a ton of supples to Astor Place Hair, so we’re discussing ways to partner on video profiles.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2021

"He supples all and discommends none, except where his commendations might crosse the company, and then he holds his peace,"—after the words "what is civil."

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

I propose to rub old man Jacob into Billy by way of liniment until he supples, yes, and works.

From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock

In such boyish dreaming the soul learns to do and dare, hardens and supples itself, and puts on youthful beauty; for here is its palaestra.

From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry

The great use of longeing is, not that it supples your horse—it is a farce to suppose that—but that, next to leading, it is the easiest act of obedience which you can exact from him.

From Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding by George Greenwood

The human neurons continued to mature as the mouse brain suppled them with blood vessels.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

Responders weighed the risks versus benefits and decided to give the VSV-ZEBOV vaccine, which is suppled by Merck and stockpiled by the WHO, to children as young as 1 year old.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 13, 2018

Middlesbrough players congratulate Stuani who suppled the cross and turned in for an own goal by Bellusci.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2015

The first thing, then, to do is to get Penelope's neck suppled.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Theodore Ayrault Dodge

Their steps and motions were all distinct, clear, and neat; proceeding from a strength so suppled, as to give their joints all the requisite flexibility and obedience to command.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini

Dalén invented a neat little device that would, when heated by the sun, pinch off the gas suppling a lighthouse’s beacon.

From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2016

There are vehicles of every size and description booming down the roadway, in and out of the city, like giant human arteries suppling NYC with energy and nutrients.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2016

By the exercise of suppling, we have completely annulled the instinctive forces of the horse.

From New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. by F. Baucher

I then bethought me of the means of combating these resistances in this, their last stronghold; and, from that time, it is there I always commence my work of suppling.

From New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. by F. Baucher

The suppling, and having got the horse in hand, make this movement easy.

From New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. by F. Baucher