airless

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airless
Adjective
  • Officers there found three girls, 11 to 14, in an unventilated trailer after a passer-by noticed their fingers poking through slats in the door.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Inside, authorities found three girls, aged 11 to 14, living in unventilated conditions with a makeshift toilet and sparse furniture.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past?
    Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
  • And congestion pricing will boost our economy by liberating people, goods and services from the most suffocating traffic tie-ups in the entire country.
    Jerry Nadler, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • One key to that, Gaultier said, is density of people without letting the space feel too stuffy.
    Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Bingo! Alivia's tantrum hack—to keep things lighthearted—is a simple one, but a great reminder that not everything has to be so stuffy.
    Tanay Howard, Parents, 8 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Moore sprinted down the field in celebration of his game-saving play with 29 seconds left that gave UCLA an unexpectedly breathless 27-20 victory.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Jerry Coyne has a post up which critiques an extremely breathless review of a new book, Epigenetics Revolution.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2011
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“Airless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airless. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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