nimbly
Americanadverb
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with quick, light, easy movement.
Our daughter sits on the ground plucking dandelions, her long brown fingers nimbly weaving them into a chain.
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in a way that shows quick thinking or understanding, as in making appropriate adjustments, devising or carrying out plans, etc..
Local governance is often flexible and community based, enabling municipalities to respond to evolving conditions more nimbly than larger and slower-moving state governments.
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Nimbly stretching Honduran corojo tobacco leaves with moistened fingertips, she strips the stems with a flat, semicircular blade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nimbly out of the bullet-riddled car stepped Eleutherios Venizelos, since 1910 eight times Premier of Greece, bitter foe of present Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nimbly toe-dancing on the baseline, she suddenly stops bouncing and slugs scorching drives�forehand or backhand�deep into enemy territory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nimbly he leaped to the top of the partitions, caught a whiff of pure peanut butter, and took off across the top edges of the maze.
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
Nimbly they ran to push the fir pole high and step it firm amidships in the box, make fast the forestays, and hoist aloft the white sail on its halyards.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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