miasma

as in cloud
a vapor of something unpleasant or unhealthy A miasma of smog settled over the city. a miasma of foul-smelling smoke

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Recent Examples of miasma Commercially confidential plans, fast-changing chip efficiency trends, self-generation and a regulatory landscape that varies with each section line are all contributing to the forecasting miasma. Diganta Sengupta, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 The Final Insult tames the albatross that Killer of Sheep became, expanding its black American misery to a wider perspective on the California miasma that Hollywood and corporate media now ignore. Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025 But in a book Kennedy published about four years ago, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, the now- health secretary harkens back to the miasma theory. Rob Stein, NPR, 14 June 2025 After a few weeks in this toxic miasma, the crew’s levels of hemoglobin, the crucial protein in red blood cells that ferries oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, had shot up by an average of 4.4 percent. Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for miasma
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Noun
  • 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
  • The monsoon is characterized by intense heat, surges of moisture and atmospheric instability, creating clouds and storm chances in the afternoon.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Raw, sweaty, and steeped in debauchery, the track chronicles a spiral of booze, heartbreak, and nights lost in a haze of resistol fumes, all layered with his signature gritty rap flow.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Bees and wasps flitted together on yellow flowers, and as the day wore on, gnats clumped in beams of sunshine to make a kind of haze.
    Blair Braverman, Outside, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Miasma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miasma. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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