puffy
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He never stops looking puffy and ridiculous, like a washed-up rocker spending all his royalties on steroids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
"I think it was a very bad idea actually... ended up with very puffy eyes."
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
"V1298 Tau shows us that today's super-Earths and sub-Neptunes start out as giant, puffy worlds that contract over time. We're essentially watching the universe's most successful planetary architecture in the making."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
Sunday was the test that all championship teams must pass, and the Rams did so with frozen hands and puffy faces and a will that wailed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026
I should tell him that his puffy winter coat makes his legs look even more like toothpicks, but I restrain myself.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
During this hormonal shift, your body holds on to more fluids, meaning you may end up with a puffier face, general bloating and tender, swollen breasts.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The fingerless grappling gloves MMA fighters use made for sharper, more painful impact noises than padded, puffier boxing gloves do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
The brothers have created a dough that, by their own admission, is perhaps puffier and more developed than the foldable rounds found on the streets of Lebanon and elsewhere.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022
At Florence Kahn, it's a puffier, oniony sandwich bread filled with pastrami, turkey, or corned beef; topped with eggplant, caviar, red peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and pickles.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2022
The rashes on his face seemed to have become bigger and flatter, less defined, so that they made his face look even puffier.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
WASP-17b is one of the "puffiest" planets known — and its bloated atmosphere makes it a great target for the James Webb Space Telescope.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
Huffiest & puffiest was still the wind of Fu Szu-nien.
From Time Magazine Archive
His hair is perfectly slicked back and he is sporting the puffiest mustache I have ever seen.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
