limp
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In another, a limp man partly covered in a blanket was carried away in a stretcher.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
German second seed Alexander Zverev generally looks beaten by Sinner before he steps onto the court, as demonstrated by a limp 6-1 6-2 defeat in a Madrid final which proved to be a non-contest.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
The choreographer asked her costume designer, Robert Perdziola, to dress her dancers in a variety of looks, with flouncy tutus for the women in her first movement and limp, longer skirts in the others.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
It conjures something overly marinated, vaguely limp, sitting in the back of a deli case.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
In reality she lost the finger gardening and the limp was an old skiing injury, but she never let the truth get in the way of her own mythology.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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