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pollute

[puh-loot] / pəˈlut /


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An "unforgettable" tribute to America, or a health hazard that will terrorize animals and pollute the environment?

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

In addition, they say, the regulations also allow for recycling technologies that pollute, such as chemical recycling, which the law as originally drafted forbids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

He said that the project wouldn’t pollute the water and that Missouri has taken measures to protect ratepayers from financing the utility upgrades needed for data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

If we want you to pollute less, we’ll tax carbon.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026

Even today there is no greater venom among hardcore classical music champions than that reserved for so-called 'crossover’ artists who dare to pollute the pure waters of the classical repertoire by appealing to the masses.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The rubbish gets into the watercourses that criss-cross the capital and, from there, finds its way into the Congo River where it harms wildlife and pollutes the water.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

The prices in California are higher than in other states due to higher taxes and stricter requirements for cleaner, more expensive gas that pollutes less.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

"The larger it is, the more it pollutes," said the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, before the vote.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

People are generally in favor of clean energy and against energy production that pollutes, such as coal-burning power plants.

From Salon ● May 6, 2025

We rise; one wand’ring thought pollutes the day.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

California’s clean truck and bus incentive program was designed to expand the zero-emission vehicle market and improve air quality in heavily polluted communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Kuala Lumpur topped monitoring site IQAir's ranking of the most polluted major global cities by Thursday, followed closely by Singapore, and with Indonesia's Medan and capital Jakarta just behind.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Based on my knowledge and everything I saw and experienced, East Palestine has always been more polluted and contaminated than what the EPA ever stated,” Dixon said in an interview with the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Other sources had dried up or become polluted, while unreliable tap connections had pushed more families towards handpumps.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Even with the sand dollar I’d given the East River for a magic cleaning, the water here was pretty polluted.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

That makes them extremely difficult to extinguish and exceptionally polluting.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

But their desire to build these AI-processing plants faster than ever has resulted in sprawling, polluting, noisy, thirsty complexes more reminiscent of the industrial revolution than the era of artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Musk said that while Venezuela’s highly polluting oil has proved expensive to produce and no longer needed by the world economy, Tesla still has five years to run on its oil field security contract.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The largely rural state has been a chemical industry centre since East German times, but many highly polluting and outdated factories were dismantled in the years after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Scipio's father waved his hand at them impatiently as if the three children were nothing but annoying birds polluting his house.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke


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