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Recent Examples of spacey In addition to the roomy top, the bottom of the Parsec protrudes up to create a noticeably spacey foot pouch, or, as Therm-a-Rest calls it, a Toe-asis Foot Warmer Pocket. Delaney Miller, Outside Online, 12 Oct. 2022 At the film’s best, the director uses his dreamy, fragmented narrative approach to reflect the disjointed state of his protagonist, who’s always slightly spacey, because the most important part of him is stuck in the past. Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019 Through it all there's always been something elusive about her, that slightly spacey aura that invites projection and creates mystery. Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 3 Oct. 2013 See All Example Sentences for spacey
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Adjective
  • Garcia, meanwhile, had nothing to compare her first season to, and still sounded a little dazed despite shooting having finished months ago.
    Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 9 July 2026
  • Nina emerges, dazed but uninjured, her cellphone intact, her boyfriend Ben vanished.
    Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026
Adjective
  • In a little corner of my mind, however, history will always mean the tragic smashing of individual lives by its cruel hands and the scattering of bewildered people reeling from its blows.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 July 2026
  • Away from the bewildered rancher calling out in surprise, away from the Appaloosa.
    Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
Adjective
  • Other borrowers are confused over the Biden administration’s failed loan forgiveness effort.
    Nicky Forster, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • The Doomsday trailer, however, is light on plot and heavy on guys looking across rooms at each other and nodding or looking slightly confused.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 July 2026
Adjective
  • For a moment, the bison becomes distracted and takes its anger out on a small sapling.
    Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026
  • Trump has pioneered a style of communication that exploits our distracted, disputatious age.
    Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Adjective
  • People with heat exhaustion typically feel dizzy, start sweating profusely, have a fast pulse and can feel sick.
    Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
  • The 77-year-old previously expressed feeling dizzy on stage and cut the opening performance short.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026
Adjective
  • Our team reports that as people emerge from the life-or-death struggle for survival, which eclipsed all thought and numbed sensations, their trauma is transforming into a stunned grief.
    James Gordon, Time, 14 July 2026
  • And when Cape Verde’s Deroy Duarte evened the score with a right footed shot from a difficult angle at the 59-minute mark, the stunned stadium went silent, minus two small spirited clots of Cape Verde fans in the East end zone seats.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026

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“Spacey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spacey. Accessed 23 Jul. 2026.

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