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as in gauzy
being of a material lacking in sturdiness or substance
fairies are usually depicted as wearing gossamer or tattered clothing
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as in fluffy
resembling air in lightness
the gossamer veil seemed to float about the bride as she walked down the aisle
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as in sheer
very thin and easy to see through
didn't see the gossamer spider webs until the sun hit them just right
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as in froth
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Recent Examples of gossamer
Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2019
But his most impressive skill is the ancient art of gilding, using gossamer sheets of gold leaf just .12 microns thick to add a brilliant metallic effect to lettering.
—Jeff Csatari, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
And her gossamer guitar strums are as faint as whispers, keeping time alongside echoey taps and supple upright bass.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
Both would be coated with a gossamer-thin layer of gold for reflectivity and bathed in faint laser beams to detect their oscillations—and thus their temperature.
—Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2019
But his most impressive skill is the ancient art of gilding, using gossamer sheets of gold leaf just .12 microns thick to add a brilliant metallic effect to lettering.
—Jeff Csatari, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
Noun
Her gossamer voice works wonders over the next few songs as Twigs pulls listeners in with her.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
And her gossamer guitar strums are as faint as whispers, keeping time alongside echoey taps and supple upright bass.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gossamer
Adjective
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Bridges were needed not just to fulfill a gauzy City Beautiful dream, but for practical reasons.—
Gary Kamiya,
San Francisco Chronicle,
4 Mar. 2022
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Having grown up working in his mother’s Los Angeles hair salon, Bradford adopted a primary artmaking material that is not paint, but rather small gauzy papers used to curl hair.—
Matthew Bourbon,
Dallas News,
22 Apr. 2020
Adjective
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Highlights from the fluffiest competition before Super Bowl No date this Valentine's Day?—
Saman Shafiq,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
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As the camera films down the front passenger seat of the car, some fluffy brown fur starts moving.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Maybe her semi-see-through outfit spoke to that even more loudly than the song, as a salute to sheer endurance.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2025
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Use the Right Window Fixtures Instead of heavy drapes and black-out blinds, stick to sheer window treatments.—
Katelyn Squiers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There are a number of historical sours, flips and fizzes that are shaken with egg whites to produce lightness, froth and foam.—
John Hodgman,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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Then, in the relatively environmentally friendly process used at Mountain Pass, called froth flotation, a kind of chemical reagent called a surfactant is added to the slurry.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Teams are shooting well from 3 against the Knicks, and the pick-and-roll defense has been flimsy.—
The Athletic NBA Staff,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, aluminum plans can be flimsy and lack stability.—
BestReviews,
The Mercury News,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Many ranchers and feedlot operators are transparent about their practices, providing consumers with the information needed to make informed choices.—
Arturo Macias Franco,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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For example, the air of Paris is too transparent in 2024.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This involves giving them a good fluff and hanging outside in the sunshine on a clothesline.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
20 Jan. 2025
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The term sounds more like fluff than a strategic advantage.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But, taking these study findings from here all the way down the drug development pipeline to where there’s a safe and effective new drug on the market is expected to take a long time and a not insubstantial amount of money.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Jan. 2025
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With a not insubstantial piece of Mexico’s economy reliant on production stateside, a cessation of those inflows will logically impoverish a big number of those formerly sustained directly by remittances.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Gossamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gossamer. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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