akimbo
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Only the huge boots and akimbo shirt collar remind viewers of his frontier background.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
The facing page, mostly blank, features a small, stenciled figure of a woman, arms and legs akimbo and repeated several times, as if falling through the empty sheet’s void.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022
You won’t find anything akimbo with this Kimberly.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022
Unlike McCarron, whom I could easily picture arms akimbo on some icy summit, Mohammad does not much resemble a mountaineer.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022
Then she is leaning in the empty doorway, arms akimbo, almost standing in the way I would glimpse her when I left her countless times before, her figure steeled, allowing.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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