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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

“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

Certainly, on a day when the ball had to be on the ground more than in the air, their shot-making limitations were savagely exposed by not much more than a zephyr.

From Golf Digest Oct. 16, 2013

In this place there is no ship but the sleek racing yacht sailing out of the bay, blown by a custom-made zephyr, sending it off to points even more exotic than this.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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

Thy zephyrs soft, thy falling showers, No more have charms for me; Maternal Summer, too, adieu!—

From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou




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