miasma
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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 • Nov. 25, 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
Above all, we experience a pervasive miasma of helplessness as we are forced to watch this intolerable train wreck.
From Salon • Sep. 20, 2025
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 • Dec. 30, 2024
It was as if it had always been there, as if it would be strange for a school not to be pervaded by this half-enthralling, half-frightening miasma.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing miasma
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