gossamer
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When I interviewed Eilish about her song “What Was I Made For” in 2023, I suggested that her gossamer vocals reminded me of McLachlan’s.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025
Billie Eilish's gossamer ballad Birds of a Feather is a similar masterclass in songcraft - making this category one of the hardest to predict.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025
Princeton researchers have learned to harness the gossamer scaffolding that maintains the structure of living cells and used it to develop a nanotechnology platform.
From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2024
For the final ceremony of the multiday celebrations, Arti wore a full velvet skirt covered in golden embroidery, matched to the gossamer red veil over her head.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2023
He would never have been happy with her—life would be gossamer, all his days merging into one long sheer sheet of nothingness.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing gossamer
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