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Recent Examples of airless
Whereas Mercury, a practically airless world, achieves temperatures that rise up to 427 °C (800 °F) in full Sun while its night side can plummet to as low as -180 °C (-290 °F), Venus consistently remains between 440–480 °C (820–900 °F).
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Big Think, 5 Feb. 2026
And in refusing to take the risks necessary to make its big end-of-the-world narrative urgent, Stranger Things heads into its endgame feeling profoundly airless.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
Carrasquel recommends using an airless paint sprayer as the fastest way to cover very large areas.
—Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025
Is anyone else getting a little tired of airless prestige horror?
—Anastasia Sanger, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025
Within this narrow range, the singers created an airless intimacy where adjacent tones clanged sharply against one another.
—Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 21 Dec. 2025
The team designed a soft, airless wheel that features elastic steel strips in a woven, crossed-helical pattern.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
The $97 million Carruthers mission carries two co-aligned ultraviolet imagers designed for simultaneous observations of Earth's exosphere, a tenuous cloud of hydrogen gas that fades into the airless void of outer space about halfway to the Moon.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
The narrow lanes are waterlogged and airless, and here in India’s financial capital, a deadly disease is lurking at every door.
—CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
Big Think, 5 Feb. 2026
And in refusing to take the risks necessary to make its big end-of-the-world narrative urgent, Stranger Things heads into its endgame feeling profoundly airless.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
Carrasquel recommends using an airless paint sprayer as the fastest way to cover very large areas.
—Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025
Is anyone else getting a little tired of airless prestige horror?
—Anastasia Sanger, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025
Within this narrow range, the singers created an airless intimacy where adjacent tones clanged sharply against one another.
—Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 21 Dec. 2025
The team designed a soft, airless wheel that features elastic steel strips in a woven, crossed-helical pattern.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
The $97 million Carruthers mission carries two co-aligned ultraviolet imagers designed for simultaneous observations of Earth's exosphere, a tenuous cloud of hydrogen gas that fades into the airless void of outer space about halfway to the Moon.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
The narrow lanes are waterlogged and airless, and here in India’s financial capital, a deadly disease is lurking at every door.
—CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for airless
Adjective
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That includes places like the unventilated garage that Murray moved into with his oldest son.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2025
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Officers there found three girls, 11 to 14, in an unventilated trailer after a passer-by noticed their fingers poking through slats in the door.—
Erin Alberty,
Axios,
10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Georgia will surely be ready and focused on its home floor following two consecutive losses, but Bucky Ball and its suffocating style from a fresh A&M team will be too much for the Bulldogs.—
Tony Catalina,
Austin American Statesman,
30 Jan. 2026
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Justin Edmonds / Getty Images Darnold, Mike Macdonald and a suffocating defense have led the Seahawks to the big stage for the fourth time in franchise history.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Some more civilized tenants, the sweet but stuffy textile heir Edgar Linton (Shazad Latif) and his sister, Isabella (Alison Oliver), move into the estate next door.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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And who shall arrive to shake him out of his stuffy ways?—
New York Times,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Casting two of the most smoldering contemporary actors on the planet clearly stacks the deck, and carries on the long tradition of pairing a dashing figure of brooding handsomeness (Laurence Olivier, Ralph Fiennes) with a breathless screen beauty (Merle Oberon, Juliette Binoche).—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2026
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This slow, visible retreat of ice colors every breathless hike, every chilly swim, every preposterously pretty train ride.—
Alice Gregory,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Airless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airless. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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