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View synonyms for nimbly

nimbly

[ nim-blee ]

adverb

  1. with quick, light, easy movement:

    Our daughter sits on the ground plucking dandelions, her long brown fingers nimbly weaving them into a chain.

  2. 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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Example Sentences

These activities keep the fingers and hands nimble and mobile.

Big investors are backing online banks more than ever, betting that these upstarts’ low overhead and nimble technology stacks will let them keep grabbing customers from traditional financial institutions.

From Fortune

If publishers translate those takeaways into decisive actions, their organizations will come out on the other side stronger and nimbler, and the industry better equipped for a post-pandemic future.

From Digiday

A much more nimble, fast-acting company that can work quickly to address situations.

From Fortune

The virtual space allows for a certain degree of flexibility and the ability to be nimble to adapt to consumer preferences, so operators shouldn’t shy away from innovation or creativity by any means.

From Eater

Some of us would like it to do more with less —more nimbly, more artfully.

Nimbly Garnache stepped aside to avoid it, and moved nearer his opponent.

Digby leaped nimbly aside, and hit his right arm a blow which made it tingle from the shoulder to the tips of the fingers.

Now and then a gun was fired at the Indians, forcing them to skip nimbly behind the trees.

Hopping nimbly out of bed, he dressed himself in his European costume, seized his instrument, and began a tune.

The ponies came skipping here and there, nimbly dodging in and out between the dog-holes.

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