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vapor

[vey-per] / ˈveɪ pər /


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“That vapor in the coastal zone is going to make conditions more humid,” Gershunov said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Colder air can hold less water vapor, which normally acts like an insulating blanket around Earth.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Condensation occurs when water vapor changes into liquid water.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

“Certainly some of those homes will have some type of vapor intrusion risk, really the only way to know for sure is to go test the home,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

The spirit horse charged into the sunflowers and dissipated into vapor.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Did he inhale too deeply the vapors of power?

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

It’s possible, Whelton said, that spraying copious amounts of water on the tank had effectively suppressed much of the toxic vapors and the airborne risk.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 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

California authorities were bracing Saturday for a leak or explosion that could send toxic vapors into the air after efforts to contain a damaged chemical tank made little headway.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

She thinks: They just say words, and what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

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

For a time he stormed about the Moorish halls, and vapored about the bastions, and looked down fire and sword upon the palace of the captain-general.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

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

"I don't care so much about the money," vapored Sube; "but I'm goin' to be awful tired when I get through cuttin' the lawn."

From Sube Cane by Edward Bellamy Partridge

The press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

"Gifford was brought up in a bad school—a vaporing fellow, not true to any of his obligations," said Mr. Oliver Smith.

From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Holme Lee




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