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comparative nimbler, superlative nimblest
Adept at taking or grasping. examples
Quick and light in movement or action. quotations examples
Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones.
1988, The Economist, volume 306, numbers 7532-7539, page 13
Quickwitted and alert. quotations examples
"It requires you to be flexible and nimble in your thinking and Huw has already demonstrated that," said Greenwood, [...]
2020 May 20, “Merriman praised over handling of TSC's 'virtual' transition”, in Rail, page 12
third-person singular simple present nimbles, present participle nimbling, simple past and past participle nimbled
(intransitive) To move nimbly. quotations examples
Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 72