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supple

[suhp-uhl] / ˈsʌp əl /


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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

Then she and James threaded them onto supple branches.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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

We rode together to the fair, We danced together on the green; And, faith, they say a suppler pair Was ne’er before a piper seen.

From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil

“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

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

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

"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

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 exertion necessary to execute this lesson is severe if the pupil has not been well suppled before being put on horseback.

From The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises by Vielle Moustache

Arrived at the gymnasium, we stripped; the finger-wrench, the garotte, the standing- grip, each had its votaries; one oiled and suppled his joints; another punched the bladder; a third heaved and swung the dumb-bells.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler

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

I proceed now to describe the suppling and extension exercises I have before alluded to.

From The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises by Vielle Moustache

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

It is here that we will be enabled to appreciate the good effects and the indispensable necessity of suppling 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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