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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
Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
Some viewers will be frustrated by the gossamer plotting in a film that seeks to conjure an air of interior calm rather than any kind of thrill.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Oct. 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
Alongside Marciano and the increasingly gossamer Alchemist tracks of the last decade, Ka made the most of a stark production.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
Some viewers will be frustrated by the gossamer plotting in a film that seeks to conjure an air of interior calm rather than any kind of thrill.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gossamer
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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
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Cumulus clouds appear in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, often recognized as the classic fluffy, white clouds that dot the sky.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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But for us, a pair of fluffy, cozy slippers would also work just fine to warm us up.Charley Ross, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
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These challenges stem primarily from the sheer volume and variability of data required to maintain effective defenses.Bankim Chandra, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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The sheer volume of socializing at this time of year also offers you ample opportunity to have some sort of romantic liaison under the mistletoe.Olivia Petter, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
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Where once there was froth, there are now suds, yes, but also shadows.Scott Hocker, theweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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Yet this action didn’t spur immediate instability across the market, even as some froth was helpfully skimmed away.Michael Santoli, CNBC, 14 Dec. 2024
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Most of Gaza’s civilians have been forced by fighting and by Israeli orders to relocate from their homes into flimsy tent camps or overcrowded schools and mosques that are never safe from bombing.Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 18 Dec. 2024
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Existing antitrust rules were theoretically powerful, their theory went, yet decades of lax enforcement and unfavorable case law left courts and enforcers with flimsy tools for keeping the industry in check.Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 17 Dec. 2024
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At the Meta Connect developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg, head of the Facebook group Meta, shows the prototype of computer glasses that can display digital objects in transparent lenses.Zev Fima, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2024
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As a next step, the industry must require mandatory, transparent transition plans aligned with specialized frameworks like the UN's Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero.Mindy Lubber, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
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Guests are unlikely to notice any debris in these tight spaces, so focus on wiping down the exteriors of appliances and surfaces, and give the couch a quick fluff.Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
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Steamy romance novels are sometimes seen as the fluff of the literary world.Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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If those arguments appear insubstantial, the jury verdict and injunction should stand.Alden Abbott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Not insubstantial, but easily affordable for Tepper, who’s worth roughly $20 billion.Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 14 June 2024
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“Gossamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gossamer. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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