miasma

Example Sentences

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Take, for example, Kennedy’s staunch rejection of germ theory in favor of “miasma theory.”

From Salon

The harvest of that change was an inaugural meeting of the new panel that was enveloped in a miasma of confused, uninformed debate.

From Los Angeles Times

In such a milieu, Hine’s troubling 1908 photographs would easily disappear, perhaps seizing a moment but soon evaporating into the visual miasma that floods the zone daily.

From Los Angeles Times

It was a couple of weeks after the great smog had brought London to a standstill, and although that particularly foul miasma had dispersed, smog still regularly reduced visibility.

From BBC

None of these is a new argument — they’ve been swirling around the conservative and Republican fever swamp like a miasma for decades.

From Los Angeles Times