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supple

[suhp-uhl] / ˈsʌp əl /


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Their metallic frames covered in supple, lifelike skin, a posse of new Chinese robots meant for companionship can offer users AI-generated conversation or a hand to hold, complete with manicured nails.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

That was all down to Styles' supple and powerful band.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Under her spell, steel is transformed into supple leather, sagging vinyl, crinkled plastic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Indeed, his playing is as supple and inventive as ever.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

But he scarcely heard Hermione: He had pulled out his Invisibility Cloak and was running it through his fingers, the cloth supple as water, light as air.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

The aviation giant said their suppler informed them the installation of fittings on the rear of the plane did not follow the standard.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2023

Mitchell’s prose is suppler and richer than ever, and his ability to conjure a historical milieu he never actually experienced does not falter.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2020

At the beginning, his caricatures verged on the radical — a block of wood for a head — but soon they eased into the suppler, more fluid and confident style of his mature work.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2015

Further "sharp practices" included retrospective discounts, where firms seek to apply discounts to outstanding money owed to a suppler, late payment and discounts for paying on time, FSB said.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2014

They got Gib down, but I that was suppler, managed to jook among the young oak-trees and run what I was fit back to the troop.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

“Energy” seems to operate on wires; it’s taut minimalism, with the supplest layering of sub-bass tones.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022

I stand in awe of Rylance's genius, but the play, written by his wife, Claire van Kampen, struck me as a candle-lighted diversion for the world's supplest barnstormer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2018

Jessica Lange, one of the supplest film actresses of her generation, is the heavy favorite to win her first Tony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2016

It’s a counterintuitive fact that a player with the supplest shot in the NBA, whose overarching quality is feel, has the hands and work habits of a woodchopper.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2016

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

They make razors and hair products and have donated a ton of supples to Astor Place Hair, so we’re discussing ways to partner on video profiles.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2021

Backing correctly supples the horse, and adds grace and precision to his natural motions.

From New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. by F. Baucher

I propose to rub old man Jacob into Billy by way of liniment until he supples, yes, and works.

From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock

In such boyish dreaming the soul learns to do and dare, hardens and supples itself, and puts on youthful beauty; for here is its palaestra.

From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry

"He supples all and discommends none, except where his commendations might crosse the company, and then he holds his peace,"—after the words "what is civil."

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

The human neurons continued to mature as the mouse brain suppled them with blood vessels.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

Responders weighed the risks versus benefits and decided to give the VSV-ZEBOV vaccine, which is suppled by Merck and stockpiled by the WHO, to children as young as 1 year old.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 13, 2018

Middlesbrough players congratulate Stuani who suppled the cross and turned in for an own goal by Bellusci.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2015

The horses are better; there is the dash of high venture in them; they have snuffed battle; their limbs are suppled to a bounding gallop,—as where in the Æneid, "Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various

It had been suppled and pointed: it remained for it to be weighted, strengthened, and enriched.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

Dalén invented a neat little device that would, when heated by the sun, pinch off the gas suppling a lighthouse’s beacon.

From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2016

There are vehicles of every size and description booming down the roadway, in and out of the city, like giant human arteries suppling NYC with energy and nutrients.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2016

By the exercise of suppling, we have completely annulled the instinctive forces of the horse.

From New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. by F. Baucher

I was still very sore from the bonds and the jog of that accursed horse, but exercise was rapidly suppling my joints.

From Prester John by John Buchan

This is merely an act of suppling the muscles; the real conditioning process has already taken place, and it has been long and arduous.

From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense




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