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as in gossamer
being of a material lacking in sturdiness or substance
gauzy spiderwebs
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as in sheer
very thin and easy to see through
gauzy curtains that let plenty of light through
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as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
I have only a gauzy recollection of those long-ago events
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as in hazy
filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension
the valley was bathed in the soft gauzy light of an October morn
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Recent Examples of gauzy
In ’50s England, her professional academic lesbian shows up in a provocatively sexy outfit with a gauzy bodice.
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
The smocked bodice hugs just right without feeling tight, and the gauzy cotton moves beautifully—light and breathable enough for even the stickiest summer days.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
The post was accompanied by a new video for the song, in which Cyrus wears a gauzy white headdress and matching diaphanous, flowing gown, as well as a black dress matched with a sparkling black mask.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
The top was a gauzy periwinkle blouse with sleeves that fluttered over my shoulders, threaded with tubular clear beads.
—Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2020
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
The smocked bodice hugs just right without feeling tight, and the gauzy cotton moves beautifully—light and breathable enough for even the stickiest summer days.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
The post was accompanied by a new video for the song, in which Cyrus wears a gauzy white headdress and matching diaphanous, flowing gown, as well as a black dress matched with a sparkling black mask.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
The top was a gauzy periwinkle blouse with sleeves that fluttered over my shoulders, threaded with tubular clear beads.
—Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gauzy
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The type of memory flashbacks that are shot at knee level, gauzy and out of focus, with a gossamer visual touch to conjure whispering, buried emotions of the past.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2026
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Perverts By turns a budding chart sensation, a political firebrand, and an enthusiastic cataloguer of cryptids, Ethel Cain interrupts a stream of gossamer pop, folk, and rock records with Perverts, a droning rejection of the accessibility of her 2022 Billboard top-ten debut Preacher’s Daughter.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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Lahav black ballgown with sheer black veil and beaded appliqués throughout.—
Alex Apatoff,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
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And the sheer scale is unprecedented.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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This year, the administration’s budget proposal doesn’t include a hard deadline for phasing out SLS and Orion, just the vaguer request to look for commercial alternatives.—
Sana Pashankar,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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There’s just sort of vague purple-ish themes throughout the special.—
Deputy Entertainment,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Discernment is everything under this hazy transit.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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Art from his personal collection fills the public spaces, and the rooms have red-stone baths, sofas detailed with luggage-style straps, and headboards painted in hazy ombres to match the sunrise.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2026
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Dozens of flimsy apartment buildings collapsed; nearly fifteen hundred residents died.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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The vast majority live in flimsy tents or makeshift shelters, with no reliable supplies of the essentials for life — and very few sources of income.—
José Andrés,
semafor.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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Give families a challenge process that is transparent, time-bound and subject to appeal.—
Jacob Crainic,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Apr. 2026
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Brands need to establish clear and transparent data privacy practices that support a lawful basis for data collection and give customers full control over their data before it is used by AI.—
Jarrod Martin,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
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It’s held together by the faintest pulse of a bassline.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
13 Apr. 2026
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Gomeisa is a fainter star just to the upper right of Procyon.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
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To the left of Castor and Pollux lies the constellation Cancer, the crab, the core of which plays host to the 100-strong stellar population of the Beehive Cluster (M44), which is visible as a small, misty patch of light on moonless nights.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Other images similarly mix the romantic and the mundane, with glamorous students in front of kitschy backdrops of misty woodlands or positioned between towering candelabras.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Gauzy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gauzy. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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