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filmy

[fil-mee] / ˈfɪl mi /




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Smoke lent artificial darkness and a filmy quality to the light in areas far from the conflagration.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025

Retired high court judge Anjana Prakash told HW news that his comment was “dramatic, filmy and laughable and it had brought down the level of judiciary”.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2024

Over and over, in soft-edged blocks layered on filmy backgrounds, he modeled a commitment to abstraction that charged at the hardest questions of life and art through refusal of the easy path.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023

For decades, researchers have assumed that the inevitable filmy buildup on electrodes inside rechargeable batteries is the driver of performance loss.

From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023

The turtle’s filmy inner eyelids blinked with uncanny precision, deflecting each shot.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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