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as in feathery
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as in stringy
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wispy
Adjective
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This internet phenomenon puts these feathery creatures in the spotlight, which ultimately aids awareness, said Matt Williams, director of conservation with the Indiana chapter of The Nature Conservancy.—
Megan Marples,
CNN,
10 Feb. 2023 -
Remove the feathery cones that line the inside of the body.—
Nereya Otieno,
Rolling Stone,
4 Feb. 2023
Adjective
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White-rot fungi release aggressive enzymes that bust apart lignin to get at the other bits, leaving behind white, stringy wood that’s mostly cellulose.—
Katarina Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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One video of a customer dipping mozzarella sticks in sauce and eating the stringy cheese has more than 16 million views.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Michelle Troconis, the 49-year-old Venezuelan socialite who was convicted on Friday for conspiracy to commit murder, is tall, willowy, and as beautiful as a newscaster.—
Rich Cohen,
airmail.news,
2 Mar. 2024
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Kidman, who’s nearly six feet tall, impossibly willowy, and the precise shade of a scoop of vanilla ice cream, has never been an Everywoman.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
4 Dec. 2024
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Its large, wall-size windows, their casements painted a downy shade of white, look out across Bedford Street onto a row of old and characterful brownstones, including number 75½, whose façade, at nine and a half feet across, is allegedly the city’s narrowest (and therefore most charming).—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
2 Feb. 2025
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Jackie has over 7,000 waterproof feathers on her body that help keep her dry and downy feathers that keep her warm, Steers previously said.—
Helena Wegner,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Two dense clusters of the spindly florals become a bikini-tie top, worn with an open-front catsuit that looks like it was drawn directly onto the models body.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
4 Feb. 2025
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Listing photos suggest even the décor is unchanged: spindly furniture, oil paintings, and, in that dining room, the kind of plush fabric wall coverings that entice curious fingertips in the decorative wing of the Met.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
29 July 2024
Adjective
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Bridges were needed not just to fulfill a gauzy City Beautiful dream, but for practical reasons.—
Gary Kamiya,
San Francisco Chronicle,
4 Mar. 2022
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Having grown up working in his mother’s Los Angeles hair salon, Bradford adopted a primary artmaking material that is not paint, but rather small gauzy papers used to curl hair.—
Matthew Bourbon,
Dallas News,
22 Apr. 2020
Adjective
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In the middle is Toledo, 32, lanky and thoughtful as always, with an N95 mask and long hair hiding much of his face.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
4 Mar. 2025
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Porter has a similar lanky stature to Douglas, and Douglas is eager to teach, giving Porter a chance to learn a lot from Douglas in one year together.—
Joe Buscaglia,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Wispy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wispy. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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