as in hazy
filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension
it was hard to see through the smoggy afternoon sky
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Recent Examples of smoggy
Replacing gas-guzzlers with electric cars may also alleviate smoggy skies over Los Angeles and other urban centers, state leaders hope.
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Dino Grandoni and Evan Halper, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2022
That isn’t the only reason to buy electric, which we were reminded of during a particularly smoggy day last week.
—New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
Air quality in many of China’s famously smoggy cities has improved measurably.
—Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2018
One is an orbiter, looking for the best places to find life on Titan in greater detail than before, while the other would place an actual drone into Titan’s atmosphere to explore the smoggy world.
—John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2017
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Dino Grandoni and Evan Halper, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2022
That isn’t the only reason to buy electric, which we were reminded of during a particularly smoggy day last week.
—New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
Air quality in many of China’s famously smoggy cities has improved measurably.
—Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2018
One is an orbiter, looking for the best places to find life on Titan in greater detail than before, while the other would place an actual drone into Titan’s atmosphere to explore the smoggy world.
—John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoggy
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The Mifsuds have invited the community to become a part of the menu curation process, by welcoming name suggestions for Six Spoke’s latest brews, like the Vernor Hazeway, a hazy IPA.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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The series has a hazy, dreamlike quality in which narrative logic bends but emotional coherence holds.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Amelia Gray Hamlin Amelia Gray Hamlin partnered her black lace get-up with a sinister makeup look involving misty gray shadow.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
19 Sep. 2025
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The low-hanging clouds reached their misty tendrils toward us, dousing us in a cool bath of rain.—
Stefanie Waldek,
AFAR Media,
12 Sep. 2025
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Neither Alec Baldwin nor his younger brother Stephen Baldwin, who was a passenger in the Range Rover, was injured in the crash on a rainy Monday afternoon on Montauk Highway, East Hampton.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
15 Oct. 2025
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The rains were triggered by the convergence of two tropical storms churning off Mexico’s western coast, striking at the end of an unusually heavy rainy season that has left rivers overflowing and hillsides weakened.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But legal experts say the wording was murky, making judicial interpretation a moving target.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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The announcement was greeted with jubilation and some caution, with many of the fine-print details still murky.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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Laser sunbursts and clouded fade-outs replace traditional abrasion, showcasing Rimaks’s laundry artistry in a low-impact way.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
8 Oct. 2025
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This may be a one-off in an area — AI and the need for the US to win — that’s less clouded by the ideology that drives the president.—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That foggy conclusion leaves the reader in the position of the speaker herself, asking questions about her own capacity to sympathize against her tendency to wonder.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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Early morning fog will burn off shortly after sunrise and low-level foggy clouds will clear out by late morning.—
Kaycee Sloan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Smoggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoggy. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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