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After blowing off its gaseous outer layers, its core contracts.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Nov. 2025 -
Each color in the model corresponds to different temperatures and altitudes within WASP-18 b’s gaseous atmosphere.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Meanwhile, the job of being a professor became more tenuous and provisional—some 75 percent of faculty are nontenured, many working term to term, with the fate of their employment determined, in part, by student course evaluations.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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With every passing season, Morant and the Grizzlies’ relationship seems more tenuous.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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At Paradromics, researchers have developed a chip with thinner wires than the Utah array, something that reduces, but does not eliminate, the damage done to brain tissue.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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This recipe calls for fresh tomatillos, which look like small green tomatoes wrapped in thin papery skin.—
Patricia S York,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 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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In fact, effectively invisible, dark matter can only be inferred due to its interaction with gravity and the effect this has on light and conventional matter.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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The best officials are invisible.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Amid the sharper angles and more geometric corsetry the house is known for, there’s diaphanous silhouettes and undulating shapes that can caress the bump.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
7 Dec. 2025
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Tapped by an artist to adapt a 1907 neo-Gothic Harlem rectory into a home and studio, meanwhile, GRT linked a series of double-height spaces with a diaphanous staircase of perforated steel, connecting indoors and out via streamlined Gothic-style windows.—
The Editors of AD,
Architectural Digest,
3 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Excluding certain items, including restructuring charges and costs associated with intangible assets, the company posted earnings per share of 87 cents for the quarter.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
4 Nov. 2025
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Or do other accomplishments, not to mention more intangible things, fill the void?—
Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Wispish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wispish. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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