airless

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airless
Adjective
  • 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
  • Inside, authorities found three girls, aged 11 to 14, living in unventilated conditions with a makeshift toilet and sparse furniture.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Hayek argued against the suffocating role of government (‘central planners’) on the economy and for greater individual liberty, and his arguments still contain a grain of truth in the context of many European economies.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past?
    Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • His Olympic Agenda 2020 did away with some of the IOC’s stuffier traditions and paved the way for the inclusion of trendy urban sports like BMX and breaking at the Games.
    Blythe Lawrence, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • One key to that, Gaultier said, is density of people without letting the space feel too stuffy.
    Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Moore sprinted down the field in celebration of his game-saving play with 29 seconds left that gave UCLA an unexpectedly breathless 27-20 victory.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Jerry Coyne has a post up which critiques an extremely breathless review of a new book, Epigenetics Revolution.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2011
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“Airless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airless. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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