wispy

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Liu was older, 7 inches taller, with bleached hair and piercings, practically unrecognizable from the wispy child she’d been at U.S. nationals in 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

"You can't sculpt and cast something that is..." he paused, trying to find the right word, "wispy."

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

The scenes follow her attempts to shake off her dependency on Xavier, gliding in an elegant but wispy and uncentered way between memories, philosophical maunderings and embellishments of imagined interactions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The latter came with a star cameo from two of the show's young stars, Emma Myers and Evie Templeton, who pirouetted around Gaga and her dancers in wispy bridal gowns.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

They saw a small, overall-clad man with a wispy beard.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty