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elegant

[el-i-guhnt] / ˈɛl ɪ gənt /


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It was not an elegant meal, exactly, but I remember feeling immensely industrious.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

This was the elegant Netherlands forward at his best, not just by making two goals, but with his all-round performance.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

He is doing it on the 50th birthday of an elegant declaration spawned by a citizen uprising aimed at preserving the state’s greatest treasure.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

But the particularities of the sport outside its elegant, digestible, quadrennial national context were always too byzantine to wrap my head around.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2026

Already it had something of the beauty of a full-grown wolf: the slender pale.grey muzzle; large silver ears with their edging of black; elegant, dark-rimmed eyes.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver




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