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
The press is full of uninformed speculation about bruises on his hands and puffy ankles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Mia said she hopes to pick a green dress and does not want "something big and puffy".
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 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
They were puffy, wrinkled, and white as dough, as if they’d been soaking in formaldehyde for a few centuries.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
She revealed the condition after being swarmed by comments about her face, with fans saying it looked "puffier" during recent TV interviews.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024
The overriding fashion aesthetic is puffer jackets, the puffier the better, accessorized with a scarf and a scowl.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
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
I could tell by her crumpled, gray face and even puffier eyes that Mom was spent and heartbroken.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 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
