airless

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Recent Examples of airless And in refusing to take the risks necessary to make its big end-of-the-world narrative urgent, Stranger Things heads into its endgame feeling profoundly airless. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025 Carrasquel recommends using an airless paint sprayer as the fastest way to cover very large areas. Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025 Is anyone else getting a little tired of airless prestige horror? Anastasia Sanger, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025 Within this narrow range, the singers created an airless intimacy where adjacent tones clanged sharply against one another. Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 21 Dec. 2025 The team designed a soft, airless wheel that features elastic steel strips in a woven, crossed-helical pattern. Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025 The $97 million Carruthers mission carries two co-aligned ultraviolet imagers designed for simultaneous observations of Earth's exosphere, a tenuous cloud of hydrogen gas that fades into the airless void of outer space about halfway to the Moon. Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025 The narrow lanes are waterlogged and airless, and here in India’s financial capital, a deadly disease is lurking at every door. CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025 Amir and Miri share their memories of holing up in a lightless, airless concrete room with two children under the age of 5, trying desperately to remain quiet. Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 11 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
  • Despite his team not needing to throw the football much thanks to a suffocating defensive performance (Trevor Lawrence attempted just 22 passes in Jacksonville's 35-6 win over the Chargers), Meyers still received six targets and produced five catches for 64 yards.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The Vikings never seemed to know what was coming next during the Chargers’ comprehensive 37-10 victory, unable to contend with Herbert and the offense or solve a suffocating defense that sacked Minnesota quarterback Carson Wentz five times and limited him to only 144 yards passing.
    Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Flu symptoms include fever, chills, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, tiredness, vomiting, and diarrhea.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
  • When exposed to mold, some people may experience no symptoms, while others may develop mild reactions such as a stuffy nose, sore throat, or cough.
    Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Intentional or not, Sano Masaya’s voice performance in the lead role is sometimes a bit too breathless and whimsical for the material at hand.
    Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Left to die, breathless and alone, Invisigal chokes while Robert screams from the other end of the comms.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025

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“Airless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airless. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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