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airily

[air-uh-lee] / ˈɛər ə li /






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This led me to be very wary of people airily predicting that democracy was finished, and made me alive to the way that, paradoxically, such nightmares can actually damage democracy.

From Salon • May 7, 2025

Johnson talked of “our concerns with the governance of the state of California,” which he airily blamed for “complicity ... in the scope of disaster.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

Instead, it exalts vegetarian textures: tackily chewy barley, softly crunchy cashews, and airily crisp panko.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2022

I spoke with her teacher about both of these issues, and she airily said things were now fine socially and was nitpicky about my daughter’s academics.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2020

Presently the chambers gave up their fair tenants one after another: each came out gaily and airily, with dress that gleamed lustrous through the dusk.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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