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Recent Examples of miasma
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.
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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
In such a milieu, Hine’s troubling 1908 photographs would easily disappear, perhaps seizing a moment but soon evaporating into the visual miasma that floods the zone daily.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
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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
In such a milieu, Hine’s troubling 1908 photographs would easily disappear, perhaps seizing a moment but soon evaporating into the visual miasma that floods the zone daily.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miasma
Noun
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When Andrew pulled the car over to take pictures, the sun broke through the clouds in silvered streams, as if to herald the Epiphany.—
Ann Patchett,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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When the business world started to realize that the cloud could be as safe as their own data centers—or even safer—software companies made haste to produce cloud versions of their existing solutions.—
Chris Degnan,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Improved lighting techniques in the perpetually dark Raccoon City police station made for a vastly scarier and immersive atmosphere than the pixelated haze of before.—
George Yang,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 2025
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The performance goes from fiery to ineffectual as DiCaprio’s character, Bob, loses his youthful rebelliousness in a haze of pot and resignation.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Miasma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miasma. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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