translucent
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At last year’s conference, executives said Siri didn’t meet the company’s “quality bar” and headlined the event with a more translucent “Liquid Glass” software design for Apple’s operating systems.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Suggesting emergence rather than collapse, a winged metal woman rises from a hospital bed, bathed in multicolored light projected across the walls, while translucent metallic fragments dangle overhead.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
"Glass eels are mesmerising, almost translucent - an adaptation to oceanic migration."
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Under strong light, however, they become translucent with a grayish green hue.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026
In the morning light, she could see that the paper was not white exactly but a faded yellow, and so thin as to be nearly translucent, like the wings of a dragonfly.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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