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Over the course of four minutes, the robot fumbled with the towel’s floppy and unwieldy shape as it slowly smoothed out the fabric, located the corners and lined up the edges.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Stephen, who’d just earned his degree in computer science, built a digital inventory tracking system for Mavis shops, run on green-screen computers and floppy disks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

It had four kilobytes of memory, a black-and-white monitor and used floppy disks that truly flopped when you shook them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Locke wore an all-black designer outfit, while Connor — dressed in a light blue striped button-down over a white tank and khakis — had traded Nick’s signature floppy hair for designer stubble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

While I stare at my chewed-up nails and sink deeper into this floppy green couch, I hear Amá wailing.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

Or 5.25-inch floppies, like some of the DOS versions did.

From The Verge ● Jul. 20, 2022

Microsoft, which had glad-handed Netscape and bundled everything and then some onto its Windows and Office floppies, needed an insurance protection against a Department of Justice that was to the company’s dark competitive arts.

From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 9, 2013

The other day, I found some floppies left me by a friend a decade dead – letters, poems – and realised that I no longer had a drive or a programme that could read them.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2011

I go through floppies fairly regularly because we'll need to access a robot or punch press or milling machine or something else that has no other form of external media access.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2010

It might stagger the present day mind to actually think of that monstrous storage problem we had when we wanted to store any huge books, such as the Bible, on single sided floppies.

From Price/Cost Indexes from 1875 to 1989 by United States

Still, the scenes themselves play out floppier than you’d expect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

Celery works, too — the stalks will be floppier, but can still elevate your sauces and soups.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

After multiple jumps from each pole, the squirrels were challenged with a much thinner, floppier steel beam.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 5, 2021

Ms. Isenberg said the Japanese began making floppier toys in the 1970s and 1980s, and Korean manufacturers stepped in with soft-fabric production in the 1980s.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2020

Rhoda was thinner than ever, and floppier, and took even less pains to be neat.

From The Lee Shore by Dame Rose Macaulay

It’s a middle-of-the-spectrum, Goldilocks option — not the firmest or the floppiest, neither the silkiest nor the craggiest, but it will slide comfortably on the boards, which have been playing on the slow side.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022

While NBC gives precious little airtime to the phenomenon, limiting us to brief post-race glimpses, I've compiled Rio de Janeiro’s floppiest jowls into a non-stop, minute-long flop-fest: all jowls, all the time.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2016

"They said you were the floppiest flopper they ever saw," I told him.

From Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings