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[air-ee] / ˈɛər i /




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Its sky-lighted galleries, painted green-tinted white, provide an airy atmosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

One arrives every two minutes or so at each airy, pleasantly lit station.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

"I've never been to this cathedral. It's airy, it's light, it's lovely," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

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 was a far cry from the airy, clean commissary of the picture studio.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

More than a decade later, the restaurant has moved into a larger, airier space filled with greenery — and somehow, the bar keeps getting higher.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The small kitchen retains its midcentury charm, but open shelving above the counter provides an airier, more contemporary cupboard to show off Miranda-Martin’s dish and glassware collection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Texturally, the creamy soak gives the lower part of the cake a density that balances with its airier top half — as well as the light, homemade whipped cream.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 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

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

It was also the airiest, least urban setting of our stops.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2010

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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