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On days of high levels of particulate pollution, emergency room visits for persons with asthma and COPD often increase.—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025 Over the past 25 years alone, particulate air pollution in the country has dropped by more than 30 percent.—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
That mid-May peak in particulate matter, the report concludes, was not driven by preharvest sugarcane burns.—Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025 In a Thursday morning update, health officials warned that the AQI for fine particulate matter in the New York City metro area (the five boroughs, Rockland and Westchester counties), as well as Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, was expected to fall within that unhealthy range.—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for particulate
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