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

Our critic raved that “Carol Bove is an illusionist. Under her spell, steel is transformed into supple leather, sagging vinyl, crinkled plastic.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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

She was dressed in the clothing the Fairy Hunt had given them all: fur-lined boots, warm woolen leggings beneath supple leather leg guards, tunic and fur vest and cloak.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

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

When it over-ran with cups, somebody slimmer and suppler, took it away, and spread the cut fruit, just touching, all over the hot kiln.

From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by Martha McCulloch-Williams

“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

Cook crossed paths with the great golden-age composers and lyricists, and she deepened our appreciation for the way songwriting, in the supplest of hands, can be a heightened form of being alive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2017

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

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 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

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 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

He was exquisitely shaped, and as he danced he suppled more and more, while the whistler warbled a wilder and swifter strain, and kept time with his hands.

From A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells

"I give way," was the characteristic of his attitude to Crashaw, and the rector suppled his back again, remembered the Derby office-boy's tendency to brag, and made the amende honorable.

From The Wonder by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford

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

Louis was always suppling and rubbing the skins to make them soft: they had taken off the hair by sprinkling it with wood ashes, and rolling it up with the hairy side inwards.

From Lost in the Backwoods by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

The result of the suppling of the neck is a soft mouth under all conditions.

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