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svelte

[svelt, sfelt] / svɛlt, sfɛlt /


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Shortly after the video was released, the internet exploded with concern about Grande’s noticeably svelte appearance, and the scenes in the clip that seemed intended to exploit it.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Ads from American Express, which unveiled its Platinum card in 1984, featured Carol Channing in long gloves holding a diamond and “Don’t leave home without it” printed in a svelte serif.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

The purrgil scene also features Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano and the character’s svelte, fast-rotating starship above the planet of Seatos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

Why do some dog breeds struggle to stay svelte?

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024

The other lady of the ensemble, a svelte twilight soubrette, objects to my having, so to speak, photographed her in her old housecoat.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

The result has a lot in common with the now-discontinued Oculus Go, but with a svelter look and upgrades like the inside-out camera tracking.

From The Verge ● Oct. 14, 2021

But the experience for the slightly svelter rodents involved a lot of shivering until their bodies adjusted by building up body-warming, calorie-burning brown fat.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2019

Its success led to a 1900 remake, featuring svelter characters.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2019

Ugo Ihemelu -- The Nigerian-born Ihemelu is the svelter of the two Dallas center backs, so I'm figuring he gets paired up with Seattle's DP forward most often.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2011

I watched with the profoundest satisfaction as five days of grime ran down my legs and out the drainhole, and noticed with astonished gratitude that my body had taken on a noticeably svelter profile.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

From an early age she aspired to be a ballet dancer, and, though never the sveltest girl en point, at 16 she landed a job in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2019

But the Lifter is not the sveltest of vessels — just 10 feet narrower than the 110-foot locks themselves — and required the finesse of a Panama Canal Authority pilot to thread the needle.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2014

Beyond income, it was the sveltest, splashiest, most scrambled-after social affair that the nation's capital has seen in many years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Max, one of the keenest wits and sveltest exquisites of the 1890s, came into the late Victorian world when Oscar Wilde was just a lily-loving boy and Dante Gabriel Rossetti a doddering gaffer.

From Time Magazine Archive


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