smoke
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"There's still a lot of smoke in the street - it was quite scary - I was in two minds to leave by my back door."
From BBC • May 31, 2026
Previous work from Lipton's laboratory has shown that this process can be triggered by factors such as aging, inflammation and environmental exposures including air pollution and wildfire smoke.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
Rosenqvist’s advantage had just gone up in smoke.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
AFP correspondents saw large clouds of smoke after strikes in several places.
From Barron's • May 24, 2026
Flames wrapped around it, curling from the top to its underside, then going higher and filling the air with acrid, black smoke.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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