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Recent Examples of stuffiness
Dealing with infant nasal congestion is often challenging for babies and parents alike, as even light stuffiness can disrupt sleep, impede feeding, and affect overall comfort.
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Ethan Stone, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
Perfect for a day at the office, the style offers all the dressiness of leather loafers with none of the stuffiness.
—Amina Ayoud, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2025
Many equate an omakase restaurant with stuffiness and outrageous prices.
—Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2025
Ethan Stone, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
Perfect for a day at the office, the style offers all the dressiness of leather loafers with none of the stuffiness.
—Amina Ayoud, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2025
Many equate an omakase restaurant with stuffiness and outrageous prices.
—Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stuffiness
Noun
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The dampness of their skin draws a burring frenzy of sandflies and they are driven from the reservoir’s edge, Tamsin swatting her sunhat in wide arcs to fend them off.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Freo Mind will adjust the humidity level and suction power to each material, which makes sense because clearly marble is not the same as hardwood floors.—
Terri Williams,
Architectural Digest,
3 Nov. 2025
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Wing vibration frequency The secret behind the system’s efficiency lies in identifying the wing’s natural resonance frequency, which shifts constantly in response to changes in speed, altitude, temperature, humidity, and ice thickness.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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Temperatures are expected to return to normal levels, with the hottest places expected to peak in the mid-80s with some mugginess attached.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
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Tropical soup What’s happening both in and over nearby oceans is to blame for this summer’s excessive mugginess.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
12 Aug. 2025
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The strong winds are indirectly caused by an atmospheric river battering California, as the storm is providing moisture to a weather system that is causing the winds in Nevada, NWS meteorologist Jon Bongard told Newsweek.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Ponderosa pine forests and mixed conifer forests have varying moisture levels that require somewhat different weather circumstances.—
Sarah Henry,
AZCentral.com,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Use steam to keep the fabric damp.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
21 Oct. 2025
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Serratia also thrives in damp, nutrient-rich environments where soap, shampoo, and body oils accumulate, said Don Thushara Galbadage, PhD, MPH, an associate professor of public health at Texas Christian University.—
Mira Miller,
Verywell Health,
9 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement In her mind, those nutritional stats outweigh the downsides of the candy bar’s stickiness.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
28 Oct. 2025
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Today, users expect protection without bulk, grip without stickiness, and magnetic precision that works seamlessly with wireless charging.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Oct. 2025
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Extensive equine-coat scoring determined that horses kept on pasture have higher tail moistness, that heavier horses have thicker skin, and that older horses have less-moist skin, even though their hair becomes more lustrous with age.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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The batter is loaded up with apples that lend an incredible moistness to this rustic sheet cake.—
Patricia S York,
Southern Living,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Stuffiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stuffiness. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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