wispy
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When the Sun's brilliant surface is hidden, its faint and wispy atmosphere becomes visible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
A few weeks later, a wispy tendril starts out, climbing up the wooden support.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
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 sunken cheeks and blue-gray eyes, the wispy eyebrows and silver hair, the shoulders knotted around her ears.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
And for crucial stretches of the game, including during a 13-1 run that turned a deficit into an insurmountable lead, backup center Mitchell Robinson manhandled the wispier Wembanyama.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Thick, jagged charcoal marks drawn directly on the walls connect the panels, and wispier lines represent earth, mountains and clouds.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2021
Loose strands, under careful edit, appeared cut and glued, creating the effect of a fuller, wispier sideburn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
I’m not quite sure why, but it becomes wispier as you age.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2019
I remember we were making our way up a hillside, the early morning mists thinner now and wispier than before.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
This time Schonberg writes in The Times that in “any part of the dynamic range, too, from the wispiest pianissimo to the most stupendous forte, Fisher Hall came through with extraordinary clarity.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
While the pasta is baking, chop the wispiest parts of the fennel fronds until you have 1/3 cup.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022
And he disclosed only the wispiest details of his past.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2012
In any part of the dynamic range, too, from the wispiest pianissimo to the most stupendous forte, Fisher Hall came through with extraordinary clarity.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2011
Yesterday's brassieres were sturdy supports; today they have become slim bands in the wispiest of fabrics, with halter straps for bareback dresses, and low sides for bib tops.
From Time Magazine Archive
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