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light-footed

[lahyt-foot-id] / ˈlaɪtˈfʊt ɪd /




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Watching a 300- or 400-pound bear execute a light-footed cousin to a tour jeté snaps your head around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

Zagar keeps the cinematographer Zak Mulligan’s camera hand-held and light-footed.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

So it’s fitting in a way that her latest, “Avalon,” is a kind of modern fairy tale, a light-footed Cinderella story that documents a young woman’s rise from a wretched existence in stylish, witty fashion.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

She reckons that what she calls "light-footed mice" can still lick a trap clean and get away alive.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2021

The sea lay quiedy, bathed in a shy, light-footed light, a dancing play of black and silver that ex­tended without limits all about me.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel


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