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Synonyms for gossamer

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Synonyms for gossamer

so light and insubstantial as to resemble air or a thin film

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a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture

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filaments from a web that was spun by a spider

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characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy

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Gossamer Bio also announced the launch of the Phase 2b trial for GB001, an oral antagonist of prostaglandin D2 receptor 2 (DP2), in patients with moderate-to-severe eosinophilic asthma.
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3M's Renewable Energy Division has teamed with Gossamer Space Frames to unveil a new parabolic trough solar collector technology designed to significantly reduce equipment and installation costs for CSP systems used in power generation.
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His mother appears on Bee Bee Bee Television, his father is a policeman who locked up the Big Bad Bed Bug Brothers in Woodworm Scrubs prison Instead of doing something normal, like playing for the Earwig Rovers or the England Crickets team, Morris wants--desperately--to be a dancer, if possible on the same stage as the ballerina Dame Gossamer Spider.
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The Collaborative World for acclaimed children's novelist Lois Lowry, the challenge of adapting her book Gossamer for the stage came not only from translating its fantasy world (inhabited by tiny creatures that disseminate humanity's dreams) into theatrical parlance, but learning to shift from novel-writing's solitary imaginative control to the multiplicity of voices that create a production.