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miasmatic

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Recent Examples of miasmatic Rumors circulated about people who died gruesome deaths after simply breathing in the miasmatic vapors that rolled off an open grave. — Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024

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Some people see swamps as sloughs of despond; dark, miasmic places filled with creepy, shadowy creatures.

— Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 25 July 2026
Trump’s narcissistic obsession with the place, together with the miasmic hatefulness of his words and actions, has caused artists to flee en masse.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2026

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But his script, co-written with regular collaborator Jack Coulter, is less impressive, welding together story scraps from other, better films to rather turbid, uninvolving effect.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
Since then, shifting groundwater and agricultural activity nearby have made the water increasingly turbid.

— Sarah Evans, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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Even the stories that are printed with such intent have a shelf life that demands the pages to be turned into living stories and not wrapped around a slimy fish.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Rocheron could translate all of that information into WETA’s digital pipeline, and enhance what had been shot, not just by painting out lights or a boom mic, but by creating that extra slimy, organic, alive quality of living tissue.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2026

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