floppy
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As Betty Boop became more popular, Natwick revised his design to swap the character’s floppy dog’s ears for bangle earrings and shrinking her nose.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
On the day Preston died, at around 18:25, paramedic Simon Crabb was outside the ambulance bay and saw Varley running with a "floppy" baby in his arms, and told him the child was not breathing.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
The group of partyers with floppy hair that Johnson moved in with called themselves the Sway House and developed a reputation as the bad boys of early TikTok.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
With his gym clothes, cross necklace, floppy hair, and singular fixation on linking all of his efforts and successes to his faith, the 19-year-old Pittman looked like the archetype of the Southern Christian sports bro.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2026
She was surrounded by three other tiny tots, all with big floppy bows.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
Or 5.25-inch floppies, like some of the DOS versions did.
From The Verge ● Jul. 20, 2022
Microsoft, which had glad-handed Netscape and bundled everything and then some onto its Windows and Office floppies, needed an insurance protection against a Department of Justice that was to the company’s dark competitive arts.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 9, 2013
The other day, I found some floppies left me by a friend a decade dead – letters, poems – and realised that I no longer had a drive or a programme that could read them.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2011
I go through floppies fairly regularly because we'll need to access a robot or punch press or milling machine or something else that has no other form of external media access.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2010
If your system supports booting from a CD-ROM, you don't need any floppies.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
Still, the scenes themselves play out floppier than you’d expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Celery works, too — the stalks will be floppier, but can still elevate your sauces and soups.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
After multiple jumps from each pole, the squirrels were challenged with a much thinner, floppier steel beam.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 5, 2021
Ms. Isenberg said the Japanese began making floppier toys in the 1970s and 1980s, and Korean manufacturers stepped in with soft-fabric production in the 1980s.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2020
She grew more unwieldy and larger and floppier, a misfortune she attributed to some mysterious malady which she never named, but gloated over with the pride the poor have in their diseases.
From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
It’s a middle-of-the-spectrum, Goldilocks option — not the firmest or the floppiest, neither the silkiest nor the craggiest, but it will slide comfortably on the boards, which have been playing on the slow side.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
While NBC gives precious little airtime to the phenomenon, limiting us to brief post-race glimpses, I've compiled Rio de Janeiro’s floppiest jowls into a non-stop, minute-long flop-fest: all jowls, all the time.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2016
"They said you were the floppiest flopper they ever saw," I told him.
From Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)
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