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[air-ee] / ˈɛər i /




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The listing highlights the home’s airy areas: “The open floor plan, complemented by floor-to-ceiling glass doors, seamlessly integrates the indoors with the outdoors, offering an extraordinary living experience.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

"It's all a bit airy fairy," he added.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

Chef Ann Ahmed’s Lao restaurant is bright and airy, filled with greenery and anchored by a sprawling patio that feels like a natural extension of the dining room.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2026

The croissant I ordered was fine, but the atmosphere was lovely — open and airy with a communal wood table inside and green and white bistro chairs outside.

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2026

Julietta read in the airy bookshop, window-shopped thousand-dollar dresses, and tried on makeup in the department store.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

They say it can turbocharge urban housing construction at a modest and more affordable scale while also promoting apartments that are bigger, airier and better lighted.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 23, 2025

Textural variety was prominent, with garments ranging from soft, stretch-infused woven pieces to those boasting a lighter, airier feel, thanks to special weaving techniques.

From Seattle Times Sep. 29, 2023

“Hold the Girl” continues to showcase the appetite for genre-blending that garnered critical acclaim for her 2020 debut, “Sawayama,” but with airier, gossamer textures instead of her previous molten grip.

From Washington Post Nov. 30, 2022

A much better bread ratio, perhaps because the crumb is airier than that of a brioche bun, so it felt less like mouthing a bunch of wall insulation.

From Salon Apr. 23, 2022

The deserted Ravenclaw common room was a wide, circular room, airier than any Harry had ever seen at Hogwarts.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

By contrast, Leithauser’s witty “Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry” blueprints the struts and girders, the iron armature, needed to create even the airiest lyric.

From Washington Post Apr. 27, 2022

The airiest batch with the best flavor hailed from the food mill, which came with its own pros and cons.

From Salon Oct. 10, 2021

She sailed through her dastardly wolf turn, obliterated all but one of her tricky connecting skills, and then positively flew off the apparatus with the highest, airiest double pike I have ever seen.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2021

Book 4 is also the airiest book in the ­series.

From New York Times Apr. 23, 2015

It was a pleasant, mellow-toned bell, but even the airiest, tinkling chime can be rung insistently and in a panic, and that was unmistakably the type of ringing this was.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood




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