miasma
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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
Above all, we experience a pervasive miasma of helplessness as we are forced to watch this intolerable train wreck.
From Salon • Sep. 20, 2025
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 • May 5, 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
The men continued to work heedlessly in a miasma of radioactive emissions, including neutrons, which Lawrence recognized as especially active on human tissue.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing miasma
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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A Wrinkle in Time
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