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Recent Examples of puffy
Though this coat has one of the lower fill powers on this list, its long length kept us warm in below-freezing temperatures thanks to its full coverage and slightly puffy nature.
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Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2025
Although customers rave about the cheese enchiladas and puffy tacos, the breakfast taco lineup is what makes this place stand out.
—Edmund Tijerina, Bon Appétit, 27 Feb. 2025
Other dishes at brunch include more conventional but also puffy pancakes with French butter and maple syrup and Crab Benedict with crab cake, avocado, smoked trout roe and dill hollandaise.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Shaw, 66, walked the catwalk in a puffy black dress with chain details across the chest and around the bottom of the skirt.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
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Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2025
Although customers rave about the cheese enchiladas and puffy tacos, the breakfast taco lineup is what makes this place stand out.
—Edmund Tijerina, Bon Appétit, 27 Feb. 2025
Other dishes at brunch include more conventional but also puffy pancakes with French butter and maple syrup and Crab Benedict with crab cake, avocado, smoked trout roe and dill hollandaise.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Shaw, 66, walked the catwalk in a puffy black dress with chain details across the chest and around the bottom of the skirt.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puffy
Adjective
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Tumble dry on low with dryer balls to keep the fill fluffy and even.—
Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
23 Mar. 2025
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To use, swirl a fluffy brush (Westman Atelier’s Powder Brush II is an excellent example of this) into the pigment, and be sure to dust off the excess powder.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Its large, wall-size windows, their casements painted a downy shade of white, look out across Bedford Street onto a row of old and characterful brownstones, including number 75½, whose façade, at nine and a half feet across, is allegedly the city’s narrowest (and therefore most charming).—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
2 Feb. 2025
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Jackie has over 7,000 waterproof feathers on her body that help keep her dry and downy feathers that keep her warm, Steers previously said.—
Helena Wegner,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Natasha Lyonne, who’s back as shaggy amateur detective Charlie Cale, was floored watching Erivo dip in and out of so many roles, which include a DJ, a professor, an artist, and an apple picker.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
17 Mar. 2025
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Close on either side were eerie woods flooded with shallow swamp water, the trees’ shaggy trunks festooned with air plants and the occasional ghost orchid.—
Stanley Stewart,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Top Chef: Colorado is a standout of the franchise's back half, a warm and fuzzy season with memorable chefs — RIP Fatima — that's blissfully straightforward.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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What Freedman pointed out — and where this case is admittedly fuzzy — is that just because Lively felt harassed does not mean she was legally harassed.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Puffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puffy. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.
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