as in rhetoric
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
another gassy speech by a long-winded politician
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Recent Examples of gassy
Imagine being trapped in tight quarters with a gassy old sailor.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
The exoplanets as puffy as cotton candy Super-puff planets have tiny cores and thick gassy coats of hydrogen or helium, such that their overall density is as light as cotton candy.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
But the Bezos Earth Fund and Global Methane Hub kicked off a $27.4 million program that’s aimed at breeding cattle and other farm animals that are naturally less gassy.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
On both trips our daughters were able to get mere feet from a habituated mob of meerkats, which delighted them to no end, and have close encounters with rhinos (including a memorable gassy baby moment that taught us how sensitive their sense of smell is), lions, cheetahs, and more.
—Kathryn Romeyn, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
The exoplanets as puffy as cotton candy Super-puff planets have tiny cores and thick gassy coats of hydrogen or helium, such that their overall density is as light as cotton candy.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
But the Bezos Earth Fund and Global Methane Hub kicked off a $27.4 million program that’s aimed at breeding cattle and other farm animals that are naturally less gassy.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
On both trips our daughters were able to get mere feet from a habituated mob of meerkats, which delighted them to no end, and have close encounters with rhinos (including a memorable gassy baby moment that taught us how sensitive their sense of smell is), lions, cheetahs, and more.
—Kathryn Romeyn, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gassy
Adjective
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Egypt's move further amplifies how mere rhetorical support for the Gazans only goes so far.—
Daniel Markind,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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With examples drawn from Scripture and across the length of history, Paine commits rhetorical regicide.—
Matthew Redmond
August 13,
Literary Hub,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The gaseous diffusion plant, built in 1952, produced enriched uranium as feedstock for the U.S.'s nuclear weapons program and later for use in nuclear power plants, according to the DOE, which owns the site.—
Connor Giffin,
The Courier-Journal,
6 Aug. 2025
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The ore is purified, dissolved in hot acid and converted into uranium hexafluoride (UF6), a gaseous compound.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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“Gassy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gassy. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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