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atmosphere

[at-muhs-feer] / ˈæt məsˌfɪər /
NOUN
gases around the earth
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Many of the old halls could accommodate around 1,000 people, creating a communal atmosphere rarely found in today's multiplexes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Scientists who study the atmosphere have long known that compounds released by plants can react with ozone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Reviews of the game have championed its atmosphere, with IGN's Tristan Ogilvie calling it "oppressively ominous".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

He has imagined apocalyptic scenarios like AI data centers snapping up land once used for agriculture and causing mass-starvation or AI engineers altering the earth’s atmosphere, making it inhospitable to humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

If it came off, Glenn would be exposed to three-thousand-degree heat as he reentered Earth’s atmosphere, about the same temperature as the sun.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

"Gas giants like Jupiter must assemble their massive atmospheres while the disk is still substantial enough to supply them, before winds and jets carry that raw material away into space."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Marley, together with LPL associate professor Ty Robinson and LPL postdoctoral research associate Zarah Brown, will use Coronagraph Instrument data to study the atmospheres of planets beyond our solar system.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Willets focuses on DJ and experiential atmospheres, rather than live music venues and locales.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

A lot of us have worked for employers that try to create family or party-like atmospheres in one way or another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Like Venus, the Earth also has about 90 atmospheres of carbon dioxide; but it resides in the crust as limestone and other carbonates, not in the atmosphere.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Eric Ambler led a school during the United Front period of the '30s with wonderfully atmosphered thrillers in which the heroes, or their allies, were Soviet security men.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not after all the other new Earths, freezing cold or methane atmosphered or at best completely waterless.

From The First Day of Spring by Mari Wolf

Or rather, it left its ghosts behind it, ever shifting forms and shadows, each atmosphered in its own ethereal mood.

From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

It had atmosphered itself with rich perfume, and something far richer, for three thousand miles.

From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren




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