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Recent Examples of puffy
The tie-front blouse has puffy short sleeves, and the high-waisted bottoms have a stretchy waistband.
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Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2025
The child was still wearing her pink puffy jacket police alerted as a descriptor in her disappearance hours earlier.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 3 July 2025
Plenty of cosmic rays peppering the images, but the comet's coma looks very nice and puffy.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 July 2025
But then Bates started to notice her baby's feet looked puffier than usual.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
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Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2025
The child was still wearing her pink puffy jacket police alerted as a descriptor in her disappearance hours earlier.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 3 July 2025
Plenty of cosmic rays peppering the images, but the comet's coma looks very nice and puffy.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 July 2025
But then Bates started to notice her baby's feet looked puffier than usual.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puffy
Adjective
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The primary reason: big, fluffy North Atlantic cod fillets.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Aug. 2025
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The montage begins with the fluffy tabby giving birth on a couch in a Savannah's garage, before retreating to the safety of a tire with her tiny litter of two.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Penguin chicks hatch with fluffy downy feathers that aren't waterproof.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
31 July 2025
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Four goslings twisted their downy necks to stare at me hard.—
Blair Braverman,
Outside Online,
7 July 2025
Adjective
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Labor of love sometimes translates as a low budget or shaggy overall appearance.—
Scott Phillips,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Barr — who is tall with long, shaggy hair and was dressed like a surfer the day of our interview — has never been afraid to try new things in pursuit of adventure.—
Salvador Rodriguez,
CNBC,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The fuzzy covering can also wear down your dog's teeth over time.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Aug. 2025
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Grant’s forthright evocation of community, a word so frequently used that its meaning has grown fuzzy, would be easy to attribute to his own roots in the rural-Blacksburg area, where the story unfolds.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Puffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puffy. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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