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thin air

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. thin airnoun

    nowhere to be found in a giant void

    "it vanished into thin air"

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  1. thin airnoun

    An unknown location.

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  1. thin air

    Thin air typically refers to places that are at very high altitudes where the atmosphere is thinner and there are fewer oxygen molecules per breath, making it difficult to breathe. However, the phrase is also used figuratively to describe a situation where something disappears or gets lost without a logical explanation, as if it vanished into "thin air."

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of thin air in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of thin air in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of thin air in a Sentence

  1. Elizabeth Clare:

    The non-invasive nature of this approach makes it particularly valuable for observing vulnerable or endangered species as well as those in hard-to-reach environments, such as caves and burrows. They do not have to be visible for us to know they are in the area if we can pick up traces of their DNA, literally out of thin air, air sampling could revolutionise terrestrial biomonitoring and provide new opportunities to track the composition of animal communities as well as detect invasion of non-native species.

  2. Darren Bush:

    The FTC thinks that you can't create a viable competitor out of thin air.

  3. Neil Sroka:

    We have to go where grassroots energy is. We can't just manufacture it out of thin air.

  4. Dick Simpson:

    While the public is very sympathetic to the issues of more nurses and so on, there's a pretty good understanding that it just doesn't come out of thin air and will have to take years of effort to make the schools better.

  5. Elie Honig:

    That's just conjured out of thin air.


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