as in rhetoric
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
a pompous professor known for his gaseous lectures that often put students to sleep
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Recent Examples of gaseous
Stars can be seen shining above the outline of our planet's dense, gaseous atmosphere as the sun sets, while city lights and lightning storms play across the cloudy vista below.
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Anthony Wood, Space.com, 12 June 2025
Take a small telescope and check out Jupiter’s four brightest moons that flank the great gaseous planet and circle around it in periods of two to 17 days.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 30 Mar. 2025
The images show ultra-fine bright and dark stripes (called striations) in the thin, gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere known as the photosphere, according to a statement from the National Solar Observatory (NSO), which operates the solar telescope.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 6 June 2025
This clean-sheet architecture optimizes the use of gaseous hydrogen, addressing the challenges of incorporating this fuel into existing aircraft designs.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2025
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Anthony Wood, Space.com, 12 June 2025
Take a small telescope and check out Jupiter’s four brightest moons that flank the great gaseous planet and circle around it in periods of two to 17 days.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 30 Mar. 2025
The images show ultra-fine bright and dark stripes (called striations) in the thin, gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere known as the photosphere, according to a statement from the National Solar Observatory (NSO), which operates the solar telescope.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 6 June 2025
This clean-sheet architecture optimizes the use of gaseous hydrogen, addressing the challenges of incorporating this fuel into existing aircraft designs.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gaseous
rhetorical
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That brief respite in Trump’s relentless rhetorical war on his favorite economic foil will almost certainly expire Wednesday afternoon – possibly while Powell is still fielding questions from reporters after the Fed announces its interest rate decision.—
Phil Mattingly,
CNN Money,
30 July 2025
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The phrase itself is more of a rhetorical flourish than a description of how Beijing sees Moscow.—
Da Wei,
Foreign Affairs,
29 July 2025
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“Gaseous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaseous. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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