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Recent Examples of balmy Palmer’s matches have averaged a balmy (by UK standards) 13.7C, well above the league’s 10.8C average. Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025 Amazon Big Spring Sale: Skin Maintenance + Repair Deals Spring’s transitional weather—sunny one day, cloudy the next; balmy on Tuesday, frigid by Friday—calls for a variety of products to keep the skin barrier soothed. Jenny Berg, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025 The balmy spring weather can sometimes take a little longer to show up in certain parts of Canada—but the country sweetens the deal with a fair share of family-friendly maple syrup festivals that pop up across the country as the maple trees start to thaw. Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025 The rapid temperature change will be nothing new to New Yorkers, who enjoyed balmy weather early Saturday before shifting air masses dropped temperatures nearly 30 degrees in a matter of hours. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for balmy
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Adjective
  • The counselor also told police Trotman had had a previous psychotic break in which he was found wandering the woods.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Lewis prescribed Price anti-psychotic medication after a mental health referral Sept. 1.
    Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Spanish canals operated in a temperate climate and were managed by individual farmers who could maintain or increase their water flow.
    Ari Caramanica, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In fact, the more temperate weather can be the best time to snuggle up outside, sit by a fire pit, and enjoy a new piece of outdoor furniture.
    Shea Simmons, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Momoa opted for softer style, wearing a suit in a gentle pink tone.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Her soothing voice and gentle manner is especially appealing to little ones.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This whole exercise of proving the absence of antisemitism as a prerequisite to criticizing Israeli government policy is absurd.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Still, the sexist double standards around pockets have continued to be present in absurd ways.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Amanda learned in like 10 seconds, which is insane.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The emu egg—a two pound, eight-inch ovoid with a sultry teal shell gently speckled in pale green—seemed like just the right absurdist final flourish for an already insane endeavor.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The weather forecast for April 18 calls for highs in the 90s in Texas, a sunny day in New York ... and snow in Hawaii?
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Heckerling's 1995 film, a loose adaptation of Jane Austen's witty novel of young love, Emma, centers on Silverstone's sunny, good-hearted, yet at times slightly daft heroine.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Where to watch: Prime Video, Peacock Classical Baby For a more soothing musical option, try HBO’s ‘90s show Classical Baby.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Speaking of Nancy Meyers and Steve Martin, there’s probably nothing more soothing than watching Meryl Streep cook in a gorgeous Santa Barbara kitchen.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This strategy worked for him for about 10 years—and then began to bore him silly.
    Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Believing in any conspiracy theory, even one that seems as inoffensive or silly as the flat Earth theory, can set a person up to fall into larger conspiracy theories, Dashtgard says, like the idea that feminism is a global conspiracy meant to drag men down.
    Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Balmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/balmy. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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