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silken

adjective as in sleek

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She is a supremely balanced runner with a galloping stride, a silken swerve and the daring to put them to use on the biggest stage.

From BBC

Times have changed and the New Hollywood brings a more robust tone and more overt interaction to its effusive interpretation compared with the silken and playful Slatkin and crew, who were all Russian-trained players.

Soon after, I then discovered silken tofu, and I’d like to now consider myself a tofu fan.

From Salon

The part that got her in trouble was when she called out the silken dishonesty of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump's press secretary at the time.

From Salon

Lane’s silken vocals are decorated by strings and hand percussion on “What’s on My Mind,” a reckoning of the ways that possessing both good and bad feelings make you whole.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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