variants also effluvia

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for effluvium
Noun
  • Police and army inspect damage to a house destroyed by debris from a shot down Russian drone in the village of Wyryki-Wola, eastern Poland, on September 10, 2025.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This includes serving as a sewage station for your body—filtering and detoxing your blood, breaking down old red blood cells and recycling their iron—and a manufacturing plant of sorts—making key proteins and immune system cells, storing vitamins and minerals and processing your nutrients.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • According to authorities, operational disruptions at the wastewater plant generated excessive sewage odors that affected residents.
    Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Effluvium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effluvium. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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