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in the air

adjective as in imminent

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"There's a whiff of fatality in the air because of the polls."

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"You could feel it in the air that something terrible was going to happen - it was just a question of when," she said.

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“We want it to feel like it’s a botanical garden that just happens to be 40 feet in the air.”

All of the carbon in the trees and twigs the machine ingests ends up in the ground — not back in the air.

In my kitchen, with the oven warm and the scent of baked apples in the air, fall arrives on its own terms.

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