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Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, said the latest results show "Nike's brand heat continues to fade and it isn't powerful enough to punch back against more nimble competitors."
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Until recently, however, aerial microrobots have been far less nimble than the insects that inspired them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Some in Washington see smaller U.S. oil companies as more nimble and better suited to reviving Venezuela’s crude production than the established players, even under the new, more motivated regime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
At his best, he’s a superb screen star: a nimble rascal with a twinkle in his eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The creature has a maker, a boy with nimble fingers and a tender heart.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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Increasingly, these families are gaining direct access to these deals through nimbler independent wealth management firms and RIAs, according to Joshua Becker, co-leader of law firm Pillsbury’s Private Client & Family Office practice.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
Critics worry that the quieter, nimbler drones will be used to surveil the public with little oversight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
The hidebound company, overly reliant on mainframe computers, had been out-hustled by nimbler makers of desktop computers and software.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
In fact, for the past few decades, the civilian sector of the economy has been far nimbler and more innovative than Pentagon-funded initiatives, so — don’t be surprised — military spinoffs have greatly diminished.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024
Dustfinger had always been proud of his own agility, but the boy was far nimbler, fast as a deer and with legs just as agile.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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And his vocal runs in a song like “Keith Whitley,” titled after the late country singer, have an appealing gruffness even at their nimblest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
He’d recently founded Talk magazine with the editor Tina Brown, then New York’s nimblest puppeteer of high and low culture.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
Gardner has long been considered both one of the nimblest Republican politicians and also one of the most vulnerable.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
Even your best telecasts somehow find a way to make the nimblest dancers stumble in some way or another.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2017
Rajesh had once been the most promising of the brothers—the nimblest, the supplest, the most charismatic, the most energetic, the most beloved and idolized by my father and his family.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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