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zephyr

[zef-er] / ˈzɛf ər /






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Indulge yourself with handcrafted, artisanal, small-batch chocolates, including yuzu pâte de fruit, sesame crunch, honey ganache and cinnamon zephyr ganache flavors.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023

Needless to say, if you just want breeze through life, make the Zero Breeze* your personal zephyr TODAY!

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 27, 2017

“Arrival” Anthony Lane reviewed the movie: “What lingers from this alien encounter is neither the wizardry nor the climax but the zephyr of emotional intensity that blows through the film.”

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 24, 2017

The once-soft air is now an ever-sturdier wall; any gentle zephyr a gale, volatile and tricky.

From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2016

“I thought, last year, that I loved you—but that was as a zephyr to a gale, compared to this engulfing, enveloping worship of now,” she wrote.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

If we had wind chimes, it would’ve been a Lollapalooza monsoon of surly zephyrs all the livelong night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

Short and stout pattypan are as cute as buttons; slender, two-toned zephyrs look like their bottoms have been dipped in green dye; pale green chayote could be mistaken for pears at first glance.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2021

It is made for the Gulf of Bothnia and the alleyways of Jokkmokk and the lethal zephyrs of Njörðr.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018

And it distilled the myriad shifts and reversals that were wafting through the Beverly Hilton ballroom like encouraging zephyrs, with the dust not soon to settle.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2018

O'er this wild romantic hill-side Wildly blow the winds of winter, Softly sigh the summer zephyrs; Sad and lonely seems the forest, Watching o'er the empty cellars.

From Legend of Barkhamsted Light House A Tale from the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut by Lewis Sprague Mills




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