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as in gauzy
being of a material lacking in sturdiness or substance
fairies are usually depicted as wearing gossamer or tattered clothing
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as in fluffy
resembling air in lightness
the gossamer veil seemed to float about the bride as she walked down the aisle
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as in sheer
very thin and easy to see through
didn't see the gossamer spider webs until the sun hit them just right
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as in froth
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Recent Examples of gossamer
Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2019
But his most impressive skill is the ancient art of gilding, using gossamer sheets of gold leaf just .12 microns thick to add a brilliant metallic effect to lettering.
—Jeff Csatari, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
And her gossamer guitar strums are as faint as whispers, keeping time alongside echoey taps and supple upright bass.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
Both would be coated with a gossamer-thin layer of gold for reflectivity and bathed in faint laser beams to detect their oscillations—and thus their temperature.
—Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2019
But his most impressive skill is the ancient art of gilding, using gossamer sheets of gold leaf just .12 microns thick to add a brilliant metallic effect to lettering.
—Jeff Csatari, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
Noun
Her gossamer voice works wonders over the next few songs as Twigs pulls listeners in with her.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
And her gossamer guitar strums are as faint as whispers, keeping time alongside echoey taps and supple upright bass.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gossamer
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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The title dominates the artwork in fluffy, pastel yellow lettering.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
26 Feb. 2025
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Photos from the live Duke Farms Eagle Cam show the gray fluffy chick getting fed by one of its parents, likely the mother.—
Helena Wegner,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Catch up quick: In the mid-19th century, Crum — a chef at Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York — changed food history out of sheer frustration.—
Delano Massey,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
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The cars were also judged on the basis of innovation, sheer sumptuousness, and importance, with nine experts voting on the results.—
Raphael Orlove,
Robb Report,
27 Feb. 2025
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The Danish Air Force dispatched an F-16 interceptor, which captured images of what was unmistakably a huge gas leak: escaping methane had turned the water’s surface into a bubbling froth.—
Joshua Yaffa,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Signs of froth have been emerging, however, and stock pickers are being forced to navigate a market that has a wide gap between expensive stocks and companies trading at reasonable valuations.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Unlike some stackable styles, these aren’t made with flimsy plastic that cracks easily.—
Clint Davis,
People.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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Teams are shooting well from 3 against the Knicks, and the pick-and-roll defense has been flimsy.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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If America’s leaders wish to bolster their national standing and long-term strategic resilience, the Trump crypto reserve would do well to focus on sound money transported on a peer-to-peer network that is censorship-resistant, radically transparent, and more liquid than any other digital asset.—
Dave Birnbaum,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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This bill includes vital provisions such as requiring central committees to adhere to the Maryland Open Meetings Act, thereby ensuring that their deliberations and voting are transparent.—
Liza Smith,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Oftentimes, these calls can be filled with fluff and self-congratulations — sometimes well-deserved, other times less so.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
18 Feb. 2025
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There were towering Great Danes, tiny, trembling Chihuahuas, and every shape of fluff in between.—
Savannah White,
Glamour,
18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But, taking these study findings from here all the way down the drug development pipeline to where there’s a safe and effective new drug on the market is expected to take a long time and a not insubstantial amount of money.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Jan. 2025
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With a not insubstantial piece of Mexico’s economy reliant on production stateside, a cessation of those inflows will logically impoverish a big number of those formerly sustained directly by remittances.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Gossamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gossamer. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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