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Recent Examples of puffy
Seen on a model wearing green cargos, puffy flip-flops (another accessory of note this season) and a baby blue bomber, the bag was shown in checkerboard canvas with leather trim.
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Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
Description of missing Indianapolis girl Catalina Lubin Catalina Lubin, 6, is a Black girl who was last seen wearing a pink puffy jacket.
—Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Don’t settle for dark circles and puffy under-eyes as part of your everyday look.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 19 June 2025
Gales of laughter, bantering and affectionate hugs streamed through the morning as these friends transformed their sleepy bed heads and puffy morning eyes into fashion model coifs and shiny faces.
—Patricia Steckler, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2025
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Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
Description of missing Indianapolis girl Catalina Lubin Catalina Lubin, 6, is a Black girl who was last seen wearing a pink puffy jacket.
—Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Don’t settle for dark circles and puffy under-eyes as part of your everyday look.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 19 June 2025
Gales of laughter, bantering and affectionate hugs streamed through the morning as these friends transformed their sleepy bed heads and puffy morning eyes into fashion model coifs and shiny faces.
—Patricia Steckler, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puffy
Adjective
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In the early nineteenth century, John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren change things up with fluffy muttonchops that drift like snow from ears to laugh lines.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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Marshmallows and whipping cream give the dessert its signature fluffy texture.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
20 July 2025
Adjective
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Four goslings twisted their downy necks to stare at me hard.—
Blair Braverman,
Outside Online,
7 July 2025
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In the center of all those pointy twigs will be a cup shape of soft and downy materials that will cradle the eggs and the new babies.—
Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The Saja Boys are memorable creations of their own, an over-the-top collection of shaggy haircuts, dewy faces, and bright streetwear that instantly invokes the heartthrobs of BTS or Stray Kids.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
11 July 2025
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The researchers found that climate shifts that underwrote the spread of grasslands allowed big sloths to arise, the shaggy mammals then altering those habitats to maintain open spaces best suited to big bodies capable of moving long distances.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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But Lavigne recalled that this grandmother wasn’t exactly warm and fuzzy.—
Sughnen Yongo,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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One of Yakovenko’s managers showed me a fuzzy black-and-white video, taken in April, of a night operation behind enemy lines.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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“Puffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puffy. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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