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Recent Examples of puffy
Cruise’s puffy, aged Boy Scout face doesn’t match the soulful grace of Chaplin or Keaton, or the anomic determination that Keanu Reeves brings to the John Wick films.
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Armond White, National Review, 23 May 2025
Let rise in a warm place until puffy, 30 minutes to 1 hour.
—Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 26 May 2025
Waking up to a puffy face is fairly common and can be caused by several factors.
—Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 29 Apr. 2025
Microgravity in space causes body fluids to shift, resulting in dehydration and common symptoms like a puffy face and skinny legs.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
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Armond White, National Review, 23 May 2025
Let rise in a warm place until puffy, 30 minutes to 1 hour.
—Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 26 May 2025
Waking up to a puffy face is fairly common and can be caused by several factors.
—Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 29 Apr. 2025
Microgravity in space causes body fluids to shift, resulting in dehydration and common symptoms like a puffy face and skinny legs.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puffy
Adjective
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Williams notes that its single-button power control is one of her favorite features, along with the fluffy optic cleaner head that cleans and polishes her hard floors.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
26 June 2025
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Their fluffy bodies can reach up to 18 inches long and their long tails can reach up to 2 feet.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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Two tall sandhill crane parents strutted through the marsh, their downy red colt toddling behind them.—
Anne Readel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Plants produce a basal rosette of downy foliage in their first year and flower in the second season, after which the plants typically die out.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Head out onto the water to sail around the archipelago, keeping your eyes peeled for breaching minke whales and bearded seals, as well as shaggy muskoxen—one of the few megafauna to survive the Ice Age—and Arctic wolves patrolling the shoreline.—
Chloe Berge,
Outside Online,
17 June 2025
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For the occasion, Taylor-Johnson kept his curls shaggy.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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Sometimes the mission has been fuzzy or concealed: not long after the White House deployed seven hundred marines to Los Angeles, purportedly to help quell the protests against immigration raids, photos spread of them detaining a protester.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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Awards prognostication is similarly fuzzy too, although technical noms will be its strongest play.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
17 June 2025
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“Puffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puffy. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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