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Recent Examples of diaphanous The singer signed autographs in a diaphanous black Ludovic de Saint Sernin dress, an interpretation of the opening look from spring 2025. Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 5 June 2025 The tower’s slender triangles look diaphanous from a distance, but from the sidewalk the building resembles a fortress, with a 186-foot concrete-and-steel base safeguarding the 94 stories above from bombings. David W. Dunlap, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025 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 As the head of a tech company, Kidman affects an office version of the high femme with diaphanous blouses and soft updos. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for diaphanous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diaphanous
Adjective
  • His office has, without explanation, held up a data project that CDC scientists say would make the agency’s data more transparent.
    Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Though a personal topic, experts say that, by and large, politicians do have a duty to be transparent about personal health matters with the public.
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Cane Corsos, an ancient Italian mastiff breed, are renowned for their sheer size and protective instincts.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Film studios have long struggled to make adaptations of video games that please critics and audiences, and some critics have suggested video games are tough to adapt because the sheer volume of gaming content has to be condensed to fit the length of a movie.
    Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Bamboo Leaf Shoji Designed by Seido Iwata, the first head of Sekiso School of Ikebana, a paper sliding door, called shoji in Japanese, shows the silhouette of bamboo leaves gently swaying outside the window on the translucent washi paper.
    Isabelle Kliger, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Some facilities also use translucent roofs on growing warehouses.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025

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

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