pellucid
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George Balanchine’s pellucid “Mozartiana” was the first work to follow “Othello” in the run.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
A sea foam green salmon, its pellucid glass skin reflecting the light, swims upstream across the white wall.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2024
Gass was one of the great prose stylists, and the writing here is typically smooth and pellucid, conjuring its effects by stealth and unflagging control.
From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2019
He has done this in a breezy, pellucid manner, with a rare talent for explaining abstruse concepts — say, collateralized debt obligations — so that even I can understand them.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2018
Her lashes, he recalled, were golden red, her eyes pellucid blue.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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