as in translucent
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Adjective
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Add the onion, salt, and black pepper and sauté until the onion is softened and translucent, 4 to 5 minutes.—
Anna Butler,
Dallas Morning News,
13 Mar. 2026 -
One example is Casper, a translucent octopus discovered 10 years ago that has yet to receive a scientific name.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Follow that up with a coat of protective finish, such as General Finishes Outdoor Oil, or a semitransparent exterior stain.—
Daniel Modlin,
Architectural Digest,
5 Mar. 2026
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Or the hundreds of husks left on the ground, brown, semitransparent, upholding the shape of the life that had once been but was now gone?—
Yiyun Li,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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At the bottom of Hudson’s statuesque column dress, the same artistic landscape was embroidered onto semi-sheer black material, giving the floor-grazing hemline a diaphanous effect and showing off a glimpse of her towering stilettos.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
15 Mar. 2026
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In front of the Louvre Pyramid, Eileen Gu stepped out this week wearing a set of diaphanous wings — a fitting ensemble for an Olympic athlete whose sport sends her airborne.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Even now, the Declaration of Sentiments is a lucid and audacious document.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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These are, at their core, deeply moving stories of women made to suffer quietly across multiple generations, thanks to a cultural war that was lost long before the Dobbs decision; the adults who explain this to the camera have lucid political outlooks, just as the movie does.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But the sheer relentlessness of its joke-cracking bodes well for future, riskier enterprises — as, for that matter, does the natural spark between Matarazzo’s repeatedly foiled would-be swagger and Giambrone’s disarming mama’s-boy act.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
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This luminous pastel shade can be worn as a sheer, frosted finish or with a bit more pigment.—
Andrea Carbajal,
Glamour,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Semitranslucent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semitranslucent. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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