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Recent Examples of wispy
This ranges from Birkin bangs to curtain, side-swept, and wispy bangs.
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Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 12 June 2026
A bit of wispy texture around the bangs adds movement to this head-hugging style.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 10 June 2026
Lipa wore a dazzling backless white Bottega Veneta gown that featured a low-cut halter neckline, basketweave construction, and wispy feathers that lined the skirt.
—Robyn Merrett, InStyle, 7 June 2026
Look out for delicate, wispy cloud formations that shine silver and blue in the twilight, while other clouds near the horizon appear dark and silhouetted in the evening sky.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 5 June 2026
There are baby bangs, thick bangs, and wispy bangs.
—Kinsey Jasnoch, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
Meanwhile, her eyes were accentuated with stone shadow on the lids and wispy falsies on the top line.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
Dark, wispy clouds floated through the air, looking close enough to reach up and touch, moving but never rotating quite enough to touch the ground.
—Emily Holshouser
may 19, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026
On the sideline, DRC’s French head coach Sébastien Desabre pulls at his wispy white hair.
—Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 12 June 2026
A bit of wispy texture around the bangs adds movement to this head-hugging style.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 10 June 2026
Lipa wore a dazzling backless white Bottega Veneta gown that featured a low-cut halter neckline, basketweave construction, and wispy feathers that lined the skirt.
—Robyn Merrett, InStyle, 7 June 2026
Look out for delicate, wispy cloud formations that shine silver and blue in the twilight, while other clouds near the horizon appear dark and silhouetted in the evening sky.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 5 June 2026
There are baby bangs, thick bangs, and wispy bangs.
—Kinsey Jasnoch, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
Meanwhile, her eyes were accentuated with stone shadow on the lids and wispy falsies on the top line.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
Dark, wispy clouds floated through the air, looking close enough to reach up and touch, moving but never rotating quite enough to touch the ground.
—Emily Holshouser
may 19, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026
On the sideline, DRC’s French head coach Sébastien Desabre pulls at his wispy white hair.
—Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wispy
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This internet phenomenon puts these feathery creatures in the spotlight, which ultimately aids awareness, said Matt Williams, director of conservation with the Indiana chapter of The Nature Conservancy.—
Megan Marples,
CNN,
10 Feb. 2023
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Remove the feathery cones that line the inside of the body.—
Nereya Otieno,
Rolling Stone,
4 Feb. 2023
Adjective
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Everyone is bulbous, stringy, or malformed.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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And in 2026, USF researchers forecast another record for masses of the stringy stuff beaching in Florida.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The new design is sleeker and less imposing, without most of the quirky details — a giant outdoor chess set, diaphanous curtains wafting inside the lobby — dreamed up by architect and interior designer Philippe Starck.—
The New York Times,
Sun Sentinel,
19 May 2026
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Others fill soaring display cases, with diaphanous scrims forming ethereal partitions.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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Shredded vegetables — carrot, ginger, papaya, shallot and cucumber, some pickled and some fresh — are arranged, per the original name, over top in willowy repose.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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The first-class crew are divinely shady, with willowy Brooke Lynn Hytes making Amber a kind of drag Disney villainess.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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Penguin chicks hatch with fluffy downy feathers that aren't waterproof.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
31 July 2025
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Four goslings twisted their downy necks to stare at me hard.—
Blair Braverman,
Outside Online,
7 July 2025
Adjective
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Making the most of his spindly body and LaGuardia High School–bred smirk, Chalamet uses his inescapable boyishness completely to his advantage, bringing an immature audacity to the classic in-over-his-head operator.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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The Hektoria Glacier, roughly the size of Philadelphia, is on the Antarctic Peninsula, a spindly chain of mountains sticking off the continent like a thumb pointing toward South America.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Stylistically, these books are often surreal and oneiric, with the gauzy texture of childhood reverie.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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There’s a gauzy sense of misty wonderment that unifies many of the works but there’s also a sense of detail and clarity amid the clouds that European impressionists from Turner to Degas would appreciate.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
24 May 2026
Adjective
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Green's first two seasons in college went according to script and the lanky downfield threat was as good as advertised, earning first-team All-SEC honors in back-to-back years.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
9 June 2026
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Their first statement signing to launch the project was the €42m purchase of the lanky and languorous Argentine playmaker.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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“Wispy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wispy. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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