curvy
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With that careful pull, the slab compressed together, suddenly stood up, and took on the shape of a tiny, curvy, modernist-style chair.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
On a curvy dockside stretch in Key West, Fla., called Lazy Way Lane is a worn out white bunker building with no windows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
This is despite many designers adopting looks that naturally create curvy silhouettes, such as corsets.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
The fashionista continued: "It's not woke to think that someone curvy is beautiful, it's not woke to think someone from another country is beautiful."
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025
Little curvy lines of Acqua di Parma are coming off of him like heat waves in a desert.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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