as in gaseous
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Already the busy schedule has another limitation for turning around launches, the use of the commodities like gaseous nitrogen and propellants that have to be flowed to the launch pads, which is mostly done now through a contract with NASA for KSC and Cape Canaveral pads.—
Richard Tribou,
Orlando Sentinel,
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Beyond the snow line, water is solid and aggregates readily into nascent planets and asteroids, whereas within the line, water remains gaseous and is harder to capture.—
Tom Hawking,
Popular Science,
29 Jan. 2025
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What makes tarot so beguiling – and so relevant in the present – is the tenuous connection of the future to the past.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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The tree was of no great size, apparently being able to derive but a precarious living from its tenuous foothold in the unyielding stone.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Mar. 2025
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Crowds are also thin in the fall, and the mountain foliage views are breathtaking.—
Trudy Haywood Saunders,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Mar. 2025
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The Japanese singer, songwriter, and composer splotches ethereal electronics and vaporous keys across Luminescent Creatures, drawing the listener into minimal compositions with a voice attuned to every inch of space in the recording and when to leave it eerily unfilled.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
28 Feb. 2025
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These sharp, bracing periods are too infrequent, though, and the back half of the album drifts into a kind of vaporous dream state that verges on self-indulgent.—
Carrie Battan,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
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The observatory will create a map of the sky in 102 colors of infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye and ideal for studying stars and galaxies.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
8 Mar. 2025
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That means the investors for new games aren’t gamers but external and often invisible organizations, and sometimes wealthy individuals, who are paying the bill.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Lucy Bridge, head makeup artist, articulated this with diaphanous complexions set with retro but glamorous details to create a dual set of code-breaking beauty statements on the runway.—
Marie Bladt,
Vogue,
6 Mar. 2025
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Pamela Anderson put on a diaphanous display at Chanel‘s spring 2025 couture fashion show in Paris on Tuesday.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
28 Jan. 2025
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In modern economies of intangible assets, what is strategic is knowledge resources, not rare earth materials.—
Majeed Javdani,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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That could be concrete evidence at a roundtable, a place where evidence is usually something dumb and intangible, like vibes.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Wispish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wispish. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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