puffy
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Slipping out of blankets and off of tall, puffy mattresses, we give thanks, take a crystal, a mantra card … and leave the giant mattress warehouse for the bright lights of Glendale Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
"V1298 Tau shows us that today's super-Earths and sub-Neptunes start out as giant, puffy worlds that contract over time. We're essentially watching the universe's most successful planetary architecture in the making."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
"I felt like I was a bit puffy… I didn't feel good about myself," the 49-year-old, who also asked for his real name not to be used, says.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
For something completely different, I decided to try her New York Dutch Baby, which is a kind of giant, puffy pancake akin to Yorkshire pudding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
It’s bright blue, with puffy clouds flitting here and there.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
He suddenly appeared in public with a new fuller, puffier face, more immobile and inexpressive.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The fingerless grappling gloves MMA fighters use made for sharper, more painful impact noises than padded, puffier boxing gloves do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
The brothers have created a dough that, by their own admission, is perhaps puffier and more developed than the foldable rounds found on the streets of Lebanon and elsewhere.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022
I could tell by her crumpled, gray face and even puffier eyes that Mom was spent and heartbroken.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2022
Laila noticed how much puffier it was getting with age, how many more broken vessels charted tiny paths on his nose.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
WASP-17b is one of the "puffiest" planets known — and its bloated atmosphere makes it a great target for the James Webb Space Telescope.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
Huffiest & puffiest was still the wind of Fu Szu-nien.
From Time Magazine Archive
His hair is perfectly slicked back and he is sporting the puffiest mustache I have ever seen.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
