ethereal
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And she looked just as ethereal tonight on the red carpet in an incredibly voluminous peplum-skirted dress.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
This work is ethereal, and maybe something solid will create a knot.’
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
The day after she and her husband, Jack, sculpt the figure of a child out of snow, an ethereal waif emerges from the wilderness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Levito was second in the free skate with an ethereal performance to the music of "Cinema Paradiso" that put her third overall on 224.45 points.
From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026
I could not understand the words, but only the mood, sorrowful, vague and ethereal, of the singing.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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