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atmosphere

[at-muhs-feer] / ˈæt məsˌfɪər /
NOUN
gases around the earth
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Those emissions are making our oceans hotter and our atmosphere able to hold more water, producing the ingredients for a really bad hurricane, no matter where it makes landfall, either Palm Beach or Pittsburgh.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

Not only would another crop of trees be planted, they reasoned, but the new trees would absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grew.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

It will gradually turn a reddish, copper color as sunlight bends and filters through the atmosphere to fall on the otherwise-obscured part of the moon.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Buying candles, diffusers and room sprays "can help create a warm, cosy atmosphere, especially as we move into the colder months".

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

I don't know if it was a "god surge," but I felt the atmosphere change.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

Kavinsky was a defining act of the Paris electronic scene of the 2000s and 2010s, whose neon-smeared synths and noirish atmospheres lent themselves to L.A. freeways and Montmartre nightclubs alike.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

However, confirming whether those planets have atmospheres has been one of the most difficult challenges in exoplanet research.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

They sing constantly and have generated the best atmospheres I have encountered in the US.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Red giants find their outer atmospheres blowing away into space; planetary nebulae are the final stages of Sunlike stars blowing their tops.

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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