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Recent Examples of rarefied
The Gilded Heiress dips into the world of the wealthy, but its primary focus is on the working-class, which Shupe renders with electric vigor in a genre so often dominated by those breathing rarefied air.
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EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The results skyrocketed Pasquantino into rarefied air and gave him the tools to help jump-start the Royals’ offense.
—Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2025
Reaching the rarefied air of Haaland and Salah’s scoring prowess would require a much bigger leap.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
So will superstar surgeons and elite litigators — people whose rarefied expertise and skills can’t be replicated remotely.
—Matt K. Lewis, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
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EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The results skyrocketed Pasquantino into rarefied air and gave him the tools to help jump-start the Royals’ offense.
—Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2025
Reaching the rarefied air of Haaland and Salah’s scoring prowess would require a much bigger leap.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
So will superstar surgeons and elite litigators — people whose rarefied expertise and skills can’t be replicated remotely.
—Matt K. Lewis, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rarefied
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There are not many better examples of how teams struggled to get close to City than when a buoyant Arsenal side, leading the title race, visited the Etihad.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Within both design and fashion, the Middle East is one of those buoyant markets providing a glimmer of hope amid a difficult economy worldwide.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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For more than 21 hours each day, their bodies are still weightless, continuing to waste away.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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The polished silver finish creates a mirror effect, while the slim stiletto heel and clear sole lend a barely-there, weightless appearance.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Sculptural yet vaporous lightweight dresses were among the highlights.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025
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But the film plays so coy with its backstory, offering it in dribs and drabs, that its initial emotional tension soon turns vaporous and phony.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Thanks to the development of new, lightweight rotors, engineers in Germany have created a small wind turbine that excels at efficiency, even when breezes aren't blowing strongly.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Oct. 2025
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The lightweight skeleton chassis, adjustable stock, and modular rails make long sessions more comfortable for expert marksmen.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Then again … This really does sum up Reeves’s unsubstantial performance as Jonathan Harker, whose new client is definitely up to no good.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 2025
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Yet for all its craft, the film remains airy and unsubstantial, never quite rising to the full potential of its premise.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The tragic Hindenburg disaster of 1937, which resulted in the death of 36 people and effectively ended passenger airship travel, cast a long-lasting shadow over lighter-than-air technology.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
12 May 2025
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That all being said, if the claims are true, the relatively cheap cost and ease of manufacture of lighter-than-air drones could dramatically increase the chances of detecting stealth aircraft in flight.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Countless moths beat frenetically around the trap’s white, diaphanous panels, which are swaying with ghostly ripples in a gentle breeze.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
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Designers leaned into transparency, with diaphanous layers that revealed and concealed in equal measure.—
Essence,
Essence,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The narrator’s faith in this flimsy visual evidence is childlike.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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The large stout trees with thick gnarling branches of a few decades ago are now flimsy bushes skinnier than hydrangeas that stand under 10 feet tall and need to be propped up with wood and steel trellises.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Rarefied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rarefied. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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