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wisp

[wisp] / wɪsp /


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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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