miasma
Example Sentences
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That perfection of air and climate that lured filmmakers here in the first place was being lost in a brown miasma.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
There’s some truth to this, but the overarching emphasis on miasma theory fundamentally ignores how the immune system works.
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2025
Few writers since Henry James can create an atmosphere of doubt around events and character as effectively as this author does, and in “Venetian Vespers” the miasma thickens at every turn.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
They were interning at a local dance studio, teaching yoga to kids and unsteadily emerging from a miasma of childhood depression.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2024
A miasma of cinder-flecked smoke blackened its streets and at times reduced visibility to the distance of a single block, especially in winter, when coal furnaces were in full roar.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing miasma
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