airy
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The fluffy, airy bread is quick, easy, and malleable.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
"It's all a bit airy fairy," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
The dash console sits well forward of the well-padded front seats, creating an airy space in which to while away the miles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
The light and airy kitchen boasts unique yellow floors, as well as large windows on either side of the space that lend it a much more spacious feel.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
She spent her free hours in the library, so wondrously well lit; the sweep of computers, the large, clean, airy reading spaces, the welcoming brightness of it all, seemed like a sinful decadence.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
“They can work well in any space, but in a small living space they have the benefit of taking up less space than cabinetry and provide a lighter, airier feel,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
While today’s New York bagels are often large, with a dense crumb and a distinct chew, Popup’s are smaller, airier and crisper.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 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
It was strange seeing how much bigger the apartment was than their own, how much airier and lighter.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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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
But what really pulls the feeling together is the quietly shifting rapport Mr. Hersch has with the bassist John Hébert and the drummer Eric McPherson, who bring an alert intensity to even the airiest nocturne.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2014
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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