gossamer
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Back in October, after speaking with food content creator and cookbook author Owen Han, I described frico as such: “lacy, gossamer, uber-crispy cooked flats of parmesan cheese.”
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025
Oppenheimer, who speaks almost professorially in a gentle, gossamer voice, took his own idea seriously, feeling the theme he wanted to explore dictated a sung approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
Princeton researchers have learned to harness the gossamer scaffolding that maintains the structure of living cells and used it to develop a nanotechnology platform.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2024
Most K-pop acts rely on hip-hop and EDM for stylistic inspiration, so when teen group NewJeans decorated their gossamer melodies with a patter of drum and bass, it felt like a breath of fresh air.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023
He would never have been happy with her—life would be gossamer, all his days merging into one long sheer sheet of nothingness.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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