murks

plural of murk
as in hazes
an atmospheric condition in which suspended particles in the air rob it of its transparency stuck outside in the murk and the rain

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Noun
  • Along the way, blazes of pyrotechnics, flashes of light and hazes of smoke heightened the set’s intensity.
    Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
  • However, both of these scenarios resulted in the copious production of complex organic hazes, including molecular formulas that match compounds essential to life processes such as nucleobases, sugars, amino acids, and more.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Could its detection on Venus mean there is life in its clouds, or is some inorganic chemistry, unknown on Earth, producing it?
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.
    Nik Popli, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Murks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murks. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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