wispish

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Adjective
  • The images and data captured the hot region around the protostar where Earth-like planets form, and show gaseous silicon monoxide condensing into solid silicate minerals—the same materials that make up the vast majority of Earth’s crust.
    Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2025
  • The protostar is located in the Orion B molecular cloud, around 1,300 light-years from Earth, according to the paper, and is positioned in a way that allows a direct view of its inner gaseous disk.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • Driver, the son of former Green Bay Packers receiver Donald Driver, is still on the roster, but that has been tenuous for more than a week.
    Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The odds of survival here were tenuous on the best of days.
    Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Teams may need to build thin wrappers around LLMs, integrate retrieval pipelines or fine-tune models to deliver useful results.
    Albert Lie, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Then in the 1920s the style changed to short gowns with a thin profile.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Preminger, ever the maximalist, went in the opposite direction with Sagan’s vaporous narrative.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 May 2025
  • Many tracks amount to a quirky beat and a few seconds of vaporous rapping.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The invisible spray, which covers around 80 to 110 square feet, costs $119 on the Rainworks company website; the stencils range from around $5 to $30.
    Liliana Fannin, jsonline.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Beyond its visual beauty, the light bridge also provides a valuable probe of dark matter, the invisible substance believed to make up roughly 80% of the universe's mass.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Do not those diaphanous wings impede their ability to pursue prey underwater?
    Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2025
  • The singer signed autographs in a diaphanous black Ludovic de Saint Sernin dress, an interpretation of the opening look from spring 2025.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Excluding certain items, including restructuring charges and costs associated with intangible assets, the company posted earnings per share of 78 cents for the quarter.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2025
  • These expenses are created by amortizing intangible assets connected to companies purchased by Berkshire.
    Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
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“Wispish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wispish. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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