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supple

[suhp-uhl] / ˈsʌp əl /


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The dancers’ slouchy leg warmers and trash bag pants keep their muscles supple and ready for the energetic spirit of George Balanchine’s “Who Cares?”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 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

Cooky and Aly loaded them with enough provisions to fill their packs to the point of overflowing: smoked meats, dried fruit with supple flesh, and enough hardtack to last for weeks.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

With so much cash waiting to be spent, let’s make sure those resources result in more trained workers, more efficient institutions and able bureaucracies, sharper strategies, increased innovation and suppler supply chains.

From Washington Post Sep. 24, 2021

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

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

He was half an inch taller than I, measuring in his moccasins six feet three and a half inches, and not one of Morgan's riflemen was tougher of muscle, suppler of limb.

From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell

“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

Backing correctly supples the horse, and adds grace and precision to his natural motions.

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

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

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

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

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

When the horse, being perfectly suppled, will properly bear the attaques and the rassembler, he will be fit to execute the halt upon the above conditions.

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

You may have to do so on Penelope's, or rather Penelope may hang on your hands, till you get her suppled, but you must try to do that soon.

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

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

The mornin's the best time for suppling the jints!" answered Billy sententiously; "ask Lepronia Lovell, there.

From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

We have practised this suppling on foot, it will be easy to obtain it on horseback.

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

A. After the suppling of the neck and haunches.

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




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