wisp
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The remark carries a delicate wisp of rueful irony.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025
At 5-foot-7 and 137 pounds, according to enlistment papers, he was a wisp.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
I float cucumber slices in my water and I swear like I feel like I'm getting a little wisp of a spa experience in my otherwise non luxurious life.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2024
But without a jury of a defendant’s peers performing this profound obligation, our liberty is but a wisp in the wind.
From Slate • Aug. 15, 2023
“I am what I told you. The wisp of grass—yes, it is a little more than that. Dallben himself taught me the use of it.”
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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The Giver
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