wispish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wispish
Adjective
  • Mayor and Queloz had been expecting to find planetary systems with architectures like that of our solar system, with the smaller rocky planets closer to their star and larger gaseous worlds farther away.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • All living things need the element to make biomolecules such as DNA, but most species can’t make use of the N2 molecule, nitrogen’s gaseous form.
    Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The state of education for students with disabilities was already tenuous.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • His affairs helped, if only temporarily, to restore an ever-tenuous self-esteem.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead of a hearty stew of beans, meat, and spices like cumin and chili powder, Skyline or Cincinnati chili is a thinner, slightly sweet meat sauce with strong notes of cinnamon, cloves, and allspice.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
  • What the team found instead was a thin layer of clay, less than one-hundredth of an inch thick, which had formed on top of the animals’ skin.
    Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Sculptural yet vaporous lightweight dresses were among the highlights.
    Alex Wynne, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Not only the literal stages of places like the Gaiety or the Apollo Sauna, but the invisible stage that forms when strangers agree to inhabit the same risk and the same desire.
    Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
  • An annoying, biker beast blasted out of my bowels onto the page and became the not-so-invisible embodiment of my disease.
    David Soren, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Designers leaned into transparency, with diaphanous layers that revealed and concealed in equal measure.
    Essence, Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One circuit and the Federal Circuit took the position that Crocs described as a more expansive view to include actions over intangible attributes such as patents, which address the source of ideas for a particular invention.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That outcome could delay or reduce any recovery, allow Jones to keep control of the platform that spread the false claims at issue, and expose limits in how bankruptcy law can deliver accountability when a business’s value is intangible and closely tied to its founder.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Wispish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wispish. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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