plume
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The immense umbrella cloud that forms does not behave like a normal ash plume that simply drifts with the prevailing wind.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The residents have co-opted Kim's poetic nom de plume "Su-wha" for their moribund tree.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Video from the airport showed the plane landing before disappearing from view, followed by a plume of black smoke.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Cars and batteries and plastics and metals and other things were incinerated, and a toxic plume traveled for miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
It was a strange bear, clad in polished armor with the dew on it frozen into frost, and with a plume in his helmet.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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The strikes on the St. Petersburg oil infrastructure, including an oil depot, sent huge plumes of smoke into the air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
As the rocket climbed above Earth carrying a Dragon spacecraft, sunlight illuminated its expanding exhaust plumes, creating an enormous glowing shape that resembled a jellyfish.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Pasadena-based nonprofit Carbon Mapper, which partners with the state, can now check twice as often for climate-heating methane plumes, improving the emerging picture of this invisible gas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Videos showing the moment of a huge explosion and the plumes of smoke that followed have been shared online.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
From the vantage high in the mountains he saw plumes of dark smoke rising from the land below.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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The showgirl-inspired costume featured a plumed mohawk headdress and showed Cher's bare midriff - a very new, and very shocking look at the time.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
A naming contest has been launched for the two eaglets born this month to proud and plumed parents Jackie and Shadow, the widely followed Big Bear bald eagle pair whose lives are streamed online.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Black smoke plumed over a hill from a botanical gardens on the other side of the hill, he said, and within minutes their community was engulfed in tall orange flames.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
In a real fairy tale, her tea kettle would turn into a carriage and those dogs would become plumed white horses.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2022
Like plumed vestments of the precious bird, That precious bird with the agile neck, We will come to an end.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Stepping out of the truck, Avery looked up and saw flames and smoke pluming into the night sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2023
Elizabeth Leddy, 28, from Poole said: "The amount of smoke pluming out was like no heath fire I've seen before."
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2022
Crews arrived to find heavy fire and black smoke pluming from the single-level home.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
“I’m not very good,” he laughs, his breath pluming the air.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2020
Bearing down swiftly, dust pluming around them, the horses pounded in her direction.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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