translucent
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Begin with minced onion, cooked slowly in the rendered fat until fully softened and translucent.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
Under strong light, however, they become translucent with a grayish green hue.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026
“This very rare geologic feature of translucent petroleum has been filtered by nature,” the sign read.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
Siphonophores -- largely translucent creatures in fanciful shapes resembling toddlers' drawings -- glowed as they drifted by, and silver, fingernail-sized fish skittered out of the sub's wake.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
Easier to find were the dikonko, edible locusts and crickets, whose plump abdomens were shrunk translucent like balloons half-filled with water.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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