clean-limbed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clean-limbed
Adjective
  • In theory, this model promises leaner, more responsive governance.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • The leaner workforce could impact UPS's operational capacity and affect the businesses and everyday customers who rely on its services.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • As Artaserse, Kim’s performance took some time to ripen on Friday, his voice sometimes vanishingly slender and lagging behind the orchestra in his first aria to Semira.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
  • Here again, binoculars will prove most beneficial in helping to find not only Pollux and Castor, but this exceedingly slender lunar sliver.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Nissan Rogue and Nissan Pathfinder discounts range from $670 to a whopping $1,930 depending on the trim level.
    Charles Singh, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • The pair both feature a bespoke red leather by Connolly trim, which matches rather well with the features of the recording space; the duo is also hand-finished in vintage walnut, inspired by the various instruments that have graced the studio throughout the decades.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Her willowy frame takes a tremendous battering as brutes slam her into tables and through walls.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • Just who was this willowy blond from Iowa City, Iowa?
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Right where the mural would be painted are two skinny wall panels between a set of balconies with a metal wall jutting out on the right.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 12 July 2025
  • In 2025, the bandage dress is experiencing a resurgence alongside the rise of a new skinny culture, fueled by the popularity of Ozempic and similar GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, as well as social media trends such as SkinnyTok — a diet culture that is widespread on TikTok.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Lift your hips off the ground and place a block underneath your sacrum, the widest, boniest part of your pelvis.
    Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Differences in Adult Bones That being said, some adults are bonier than others.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • Three years later, its entire website is one big collage of young, svelte athletes pushing boundaries in sports like surfing, enduro mountain biking, rock climbing and active-volcano skiing.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 June 2025
  • That does mean though that Air (the clue is in the name) is a lot more svelte than Glass 2.
    Paul Lamkin, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Fred, lithe as a jungle cat, sidled past Irv in his tie-dye and Lily in her towel, and made his way down the hall.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
  • Leap of Faith by Donglin Zhou Grand Prize Winner Lemurs are remarkably lithe creatures.
    Skylar Knight, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
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“Clean-limbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clean-limbed. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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