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  • adjective comparative form of supple: more supple

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Examples

  • Monopsonies — markets dominated by a single buyer — never seem to get the PR that their single-suppler monopolist cousins do, but both of them have similar potential to screw the workers, in revolutionary-slogan terms: if monopolies can price goods out of proportion to the wage market, monopsonies can squeeze wages out of proportion to the marketplace.

    Rockin' pneumonia Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Monopsonies — markets dominated by a single buyer — never seem to get the PR that their single-suppler monopolist cousins do, but both of them have similar potential to screw the workers, in revolutionary-slogan terms: if monopolies can price goods out of proportion to the wage market, monopsonies can squeeze wages out of proportion to the marketplace.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • This increased blood flow rejuvenates our skin, making it smoother and suppler.

    3 Ways to Spring Clean Your Brain 2011

  • Concrete reinforced with rebar would have been softer and suppler than that glove.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

  • The hard and tannic '28s were followed by the softer, suppler '29s.

    A Vintage That Will Age for a Century Will Lyons 2011

  • Concrete reinforced with rebar would have been softer and suppler than that glove.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

  • With loss of weight, the body feels suppler and many diseases are also averted.

    Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Gastric Bypass Surgery Cuts Cancer Mortality in Half 2009

  • Wal-Mart also offered a list of merger conditions that it told the tribunal it would be glad to comply with, including putting about $14 million into a "suppler development fund" to help South African producers learn how to become Wal-Mart suppliers.

    Stacy Mitchell: In South Africa, Wal-Mart Refuses to Buy Local, Threatens WTO Action, and Wins Stacy Mitchell 2011

  • The German government, however, had been the primary backer of GM's original plan to sell a majority stake in Opel to Canadian auto suppler Magna International Inc. and Russia's Sberbank, and were angered and embarrassed when the auto maker suddenly abandoned those plans late last year.

    GM Could Add More to Opel Plan Vanessa Fuhrmans 2010

  • The German government, however, had been the primary backer of GM's original plan to sell a majority stake in Opel to Canadian auto suppler Magna International Inc. and Russia's Sberbank, and were angered and embarrassed when the auto maker suddenly abandoned those plans late last year.

    GM Could Add More to Opel Plan Vanessa Fuhrmans 2010

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  • "...when we have stuff'd

    These pipes and these conveyances of our blood

    With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls

    Than in our priest-like fasts."

    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.

    August 29, 2009