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Recent Examples of puffy
How does a young man with perfectly flowing chi and an EpiPen in his glove compartment wind up puffy faced and dead just off the Van Wyck Expressway?
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Rory Allen, who created it, put a bright-yellow, puffy coat on the receiver, whose face was completely covered.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
There are extra layers, bulky sweaters, puffy jackets, and warm accessories that need to fit beyond your essential travel items.
—Annita Katee, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2025
This one involves a puffy NFL bomber jacket, a New York City Ballet dad cap, some mega baggy low-rise jeans, Nike Air More Uptempo trainers and…*check notes* a teeny, tiny indigo-blue Chanel bag.
—Daisy Jones, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2025
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Rory Allen, who created it, put a bright-yellow, puffy coat on the receiver, whose face was completely covered.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
There are extra layers, bulky sweaters, puffy jackets, and warm accessories that need to fit beyond your essential travel items.
—Annita Katee, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2025
This one involves a puffy NFL bomber jacket, a New York City Ballet dad cap, some mega baggy low-rise jeans, Nike Air More Uptempo trainers and…*check notes* a teeny, tiny indigo-blue Chanel bag.
—Daisy Jones, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puffy
Adjective
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Highlights from the fluffiest competition before Super Bowl No date this Valentine's Day?—
Saman Shafiq,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
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As a huge fan of the soap brow trend, I was fascinated with the idea that one little clear gel could give me the fluffy brows of my dreams.—
Elizabeth Denton,
StyleCaster,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Its large, wall-size windows, their casements painted a downy shade of white, look out across Bedford Street onto a row of old and characterful brownstones, including number 75½, whose façade, at nine and a half feet across, is allegedly the city’s narrowest (and therefore most charming).—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
2 Feb. 2025
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Jackie has over 7,000 waterproof feathers on her body that help keep her dry and downy feathers that keep her warm, Steers previously said.—
Helena Wegner,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The cropped black faux leather jacket has a shaggy, biscotti brown trim and sleeves.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2025
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The London Orbital Motorway, or the M25, is a vast ring road that runs in a shaggy circle around the outer edges of the capital.—
Anna Russell,
The New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In one of them, the star just looks like a big sort of fuzzy blob.—
Jeffrey Kluger/Greenbelt,
TIME,
8 Feb. 2025
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And that scene that Kaitlyn did an exceptional job of recreating is burned into my memory as a kid watching that — with her pink fuzzy sweater and the glossy lips.—
Max Gao,
Variety,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Puffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puffy. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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