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atmosphere

[at-muhs-feer] / ˈæt məsˌfɪər /
NOUN
gases around the earth
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"It was also believed that leakage from these sources was minor, around half a percent of what went in, because people would essentially be leaking their profits if their feedstocks were released into the atmosphere."

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

Methane, the second-biggest contributor to climate change, is spewing into the atmosphere from the oil and gas industry, landfills and dairy farms.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

Fireballs are made when much larger pieces of debris, external - more like the size of a grape or an acorn - pass though the atmosphere.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

As a youth, Rodríguez Castro spent much of his time at his grandfather’s house enthralled with the macho atmosphere of guns and bodybuilding prevalent in Raúl Castro’s security detail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

According to this concept you first needed to blast out of the atmosphere and stabilize a mother spacecraft inside of Earth’s orbit.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson




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