as in rhetoric
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
a pompous professor known for his gaseous lectures that often put students to sleep
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Recent Examples of gaseous
An analysis by the company found that the likely cause was the failure of a pressurized tank that stores gaseous nitrogen for the ship's environmental control system, which triggered the explosion.
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Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2025
Netflix is looking to the stars — in case, the gaseous spheroidal celestial bodies, not Hollywood celebs — to push users to stream more content.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025
The ignorosphere forms a boundary between Earth's gaseous shroud and outer space.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2025
In a November land deal with the state, Global Laser Enrichment obtained more than 600 acres adjacent to the gaseous diffusion plant.
—Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2025
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Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2025
Netflix is looking to the stars — in case, the gaseous spheroidal celestial bodies, not Hollywood celebs — to push users to stream more content.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025
The ignorosphere forms a boundary between Earth's gaseous shroud and outer space.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2025
In a November land deal with the state, Global Laser Enrichment obtained more than 600 acres adjacent to the gaseous diffusion plant.
—Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gaseous
rhetorical
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Two days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a rhetorical gap between Arizona politicos highlighted a major split for the congressional delegation, with some members turning to other matters or saying nothing at all.—
Ronald J. Hansen,
AZCentral.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has taken an increasingly hard rhetorical line on immigration.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Gaseous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaseous. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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