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Recent Examples of rarefied
The results skyrocketed Pasquantino into rarefied air and gave him the tools to help jump-start the Royals’ offense.
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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
Undoubtedly 1950’s Sunset Boulevard, director/writer Billy Wilder‘s ultimate Hollywood story is in that rarefied air.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025
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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
Undoubtedly 1950’s Sunset Boulevard, director/writer Billy Wilder‘s ultimate Hollywood story is in that rarefied air.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rarefied
Adjective
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This is what the whole night felt like — youthful, buoyant, and carefree.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
4 Oct. 2025
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Guillarmé reported the label’s sales remained buoyant, even in the Middle East, except in Doha, where business was slower than two or three years ago.—
Ellen Groves,
Footwear News,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Capture Bag Demo — Fincke also installed the TransAstra Fly Trap Capture Bag Demo into the NanoRacks Bishop airlock, ahead of tests to show its capability to remain open, close and stay airtight in the weightless environment of space.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Instead of a bulky, heavy pea coat or trench coat, having a down coat in your carry-on is practically weightless.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The dresses, in muted shades ranging from pale pink to pearl gray, cream and black, contrast layers of vaporous tulle and organza with long ruffled skirts and collared capes in satin or taffeta edged with lace.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
5 Sep. 2025
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This fluttering, vaporous, slightly mysterious pas de deux was created, in 1980, for the ballerina Merrill Ashley, a technical powerhouse with a hidden lyrical side.—
Jillian Steinhauer,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The lightweight and compact kit is easy to bring along while traveling or tuck away in a closet at home.—
Christine Persaud,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Looking for a lightweight laptop that won’t blow your budget?—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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
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The hit isn’t unsubstantial: In 2024, textile exports to the United States accounted for 10.7 percent of China’s total textile exports, valued at $14.8 billion, and 22.7 percent of China’s total apparel exports, or $36.1 billion’s worth.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
5 May 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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On the strength of flimsier-than-expected wins against Clemson and Florida, LSU was +1000 to win the national title last week, sixth-best in the country.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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People make close, intense bonds when stuck in the Big Brother house together, and Vince and Morgan’s dynamic crosses more lines with each passing day, emotional cheating threatening to tip into physical even as Vince continues to hopelessly cloak his feelings in flimsy analogies and code phrases.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
27 Sep. 2025
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