vapor
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Essentially, cloud seeding speeds up the natural process of water vapor condensing inside of clouds.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
In particular, it strengthened the transport of water vapor from the midlatitude Indian Ocean toward East Antarctica through atmospheric rivers.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
“Believe it or not, water vapor is actually the most potent and efficient greenhouse gas.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The first phase appeared gradually across the material, somewhat like liquid water steadily becoming vapor.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
“So if we let you go,” Percy summed up, “we get mobbed by a bunch of black vapor dudes with gold swords. Fine. How do we break those chains?”
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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The argument they’re advancing, as I can tell, is constructed out of preemption vapors.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
Did he inhale too deeply the vapors of power?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
An industrial tank at a plant in Garden Grove, Calif., about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles, has been leaking vapors since at least Thursday, authorities said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
From there, teams in hazardous material suits can go in and “neutralize and mitigate the vapors that will be coming off of that,” Covey said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
He leaned forward, his breath wafting from his lips in cold vapors.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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The Tribune must have more "kick," so it vapored about "a few daring New Yorkers" venturing into the "far West," discovering Chicago and telling their friends about it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He raged and vapored and threatened on the floor of the House.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy
The suck of fresh air under pressure, vapored like steam, whirled around them in gusts, and the water oozed and rippled beside 109 their feet as they went forward.
From The Plunderer by Douglas Duer
High over all this billowing and peaking tower the Pitons of Carbet, gem-violet through the vapored miles,—the tallest one filleted with a single soft white band of cloud.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
Ben and his brother eked out the profits of the dairy by occasional labor, and Ben had sometimes vapored in tap-rooms where he had better have held his tongue.
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
The press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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We have a right to reject with pity or with scorn the stammerings of incompetence, the babble of lunacy, or the vaporing of imposture.
From Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects by Kenyon Cox
Ensign Dave Darrin, overhearing that conversation, and well knowing that he was listening to more than vaporing, felt his face blanch.
From Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Must not the vaporing Burgoyne, who, it is said, possesses great sensibility, be humbled to the dust?
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
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