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spacey

[spey-see] / ˈspeɪ si /


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“Baby, take a chance or you’ll never, ever know/ I got money in my hands that I’d really like to blow,” Bieber pants over a spacey, Neptunes-style beat.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2026

But Tortoise has always had an equally prominent fondness for softer textures, especially those found in spacey acts from Germany such as Tangerine Dream and Cluster.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 28, 2025

And he appeared just as often in more popular fare, playing a spacey tank commander in “Kelly’s Heroes,” a demented arsonist in “Backdraft” and an authoritarian president in the “Hunger Games” films.

From Seattle Times Mar. 27, 2024

Whereas he once presented himself as a vain peacock, Clay here comes off as spacey and a bit doddering, swaddled in scarves and wide sunglasses and outfits Susie Essman might wear on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

From New York Times Jan. 19, 2024

I guess I was the one actin’ spacey, but she just told me to take her home.

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper

Lesh and Weir continued with Furthur, which reconnected to the adventurous improvisations of the Grateful Dead’s spacier excursions.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 2024

Those “Midnight City” synths never stopped squeaking in our ears, but on the spacier rock-band record “Fantasy,” main man Anthony Gonzalez shows he still has a knack for expansive anthems.

From Seattle Times Apr. 19, 2023

I guess for a song that’s destined to orbit around this branch of military in perpetuity, I was hoping for something … I don’t know, spacier?

From Washington Post Sep. 20, 2022

Her vogue-inviting baile funk, topped with her sinuously musical Portuguese raps, is explosive on a club soundsystem; new single mEnorme shows off a softer, spacier R&B side.

From The Guardian Dec. 28, 2018

Deerhunter, his band, used to be noisier, sometimes punkier and sometimes more abstract; Atlas Sound, his solo recordings, used to be dronier and spacier.

From New York Times Nov. 27, 2011




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