translucence
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Some shrimp varieties don’t turn pink or orange when cooked, and some curl into tight spirals while others barely form a crescent when heated, so the best indicator is the shift from translucence to opacity.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2024
As handy as translucence might be for evading predators, it is rare in animals that live on land.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022
There’s a startling translucence to her performance, a willingness to let emotions bleed through gently and unforcedly, that matches the unhurried grace and circumspection of the filmmaking.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2022
But they also made a lot of music that was slick to the point of translucence, lifestyle product that demanded little more of its listener than their wallet.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2020
He had a colorless translucence about him that made him seem as if he were in the earliest stages of progressive invisibility.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing translucence
Prairie Lotus
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luc, lum, lus (light), List 2
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