airless

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Recent Examples of airless Another study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, highlights how Bennu's airless surface has been shaped by space weathering, including tiny micrometeorite impacts and the solar wind. Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for airless
Adjective
  • That includes places like the unventilated garage that Murray moved into with his oldest son.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 2 July 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • The suffocating Benz pushed the lifelong asthmatic to the edge.
    Sam Bloch August 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • And with the team operating under the suffocating grip of new CBA, every dollar must work overtime.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • The late Tom Wolfe, rubbing his hands with glee and spilling lemonade on his white suit, would be delighted that tradition has now taken its revenge on stuffy Bauhaus Europeanism, and maybe rightly so.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Armani, who had already introduced unstructured jackets for men and women, was part of the generation of designers who ushered in a less formal fashion era, one that would allow men and women to look refined without looking stuffy.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The first few minutes of the film are a breathless, almost wordless introduction to the Otherlands, with Scarlet trapped under rotting hands clamoring to keep her there.
    Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There have been no breathless interviews about wedding plans or a tour hiatus.
    Gemma Allen, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Airless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airless. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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