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[air-ee] / ˈɛər i /




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The yoga class is open to all levels, including beginners, but participants must reserve a spot and bring their own mats for both sessions, which will be held inside the museum’s spacious, airy lobby.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

"I've never been to this cathedral. It's airy, it's light, it's lovely," she said.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Katzenback said the airy feeling I had leaving my treatment was likely linked to temporary changes in fluid distribution, which can “make people feel less swollen or heavy, especially after travel.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Generous walls of glass provide abundant natural light create a light, airy atmosphere.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

While Linda peeled an orange and the smell of that prickled his nostrils, Bloom lay on his back, head resting on his pack, facing up into the airy green aspen foliage.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

They say it can turbocharge urban housing construction at a modest and more affordable scale while also promoting apartments that are bigger, airier and better lighted.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 23, 2025

“Hold the Girl” continues to showcase the appetite for genre-blending that garnered critical acclaim for her 2020 debut, “Sawayama,” but with airier, gossamer textures instead of her previous molten grip.

From Washington Post Nov. 30, 2022

“They can work well in any space, but in a small living space they have the benefit of taking up less space than cabinetry and provide a lighter, airier feel,” she says.

From Seattle Times Aug. 10, 2022

A much better bread ratio, perhaps because the crumb is airier than that of a brioche bun, so it felt less like mouthing a bunch of wall insulation.

From Salon Apr. 23, 2022

It was strange seeing how much bigger the apartment was than their own, how much airier and lighter.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

By contrast, Leithauser’s witty “Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry” blueprints the struts and girders, the iron armature, needed to create even the airiest lyric.

From Washington Post Apr. 27, 2022

The airiest batch with the best flavor hailed from the food mill, which came with its own pros and cons.

From Salon Oct. 10, 2021

She sailed through her dastardly wolf turn, obliterated all but one of her tricky connecting skills, and then positively flew off the apparatus with the highest, airiest double pike I have ever seen.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2021

Perhaps you have sometimes wondered, when you’ve run out of worthier things to think about, what that airiest of musicals, “The Fantasticks,” might be like if it developed a social conscience.

From New York Times Sep. 4, 2014

It was a pleasant, mellow-toned bell, but even the airiest, tinkling chime can be rung insistently and in a panic, and that was unmistakably the type of ringing this was.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood




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