wispish

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Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • With every passing season, Morant and the Grizzlies’ relationship seems more tenuous.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This week in Thessaloniki, industry professionals have been circulating leaflets and Visibility Zero campaign buttons, hoping to raise awareness about their struggle by ensuring that the movement is anything but invisible to festival guests.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The underwater clues that researchers are grasping for in this effort are invisible, almost ephemeral, but hold promise just the same.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Lemmon takes on the sheer look in a diaphanous black silk organza skirt and jacket layered over the tricolor, while Jacobson leaves her suit jacket open to show off an ab-baring cropped button-down and midi skirt.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
  • With a bright pattern set on flaming crimson and a diaphanous petticoat underneath, the dress fits her perfectly.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 16 Nov. 2025.

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