Thesaurus results for POLLUTION

pollution

noun

as in contamination

the action or process of making the environment dirty or harmful The company designed devices to reduce the pollution of the world's oceans.

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as in corruption

something that makes (someone) less pure, honest, or moral They refused to let their children play violent video games, believing that they caused pollution in a developing mind.

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Recent Examples of pollution Or could this be our finest hour in terms of combatting these new forms of pollution. —

Big Think, 7 Mar. 2026 Residents’ concerns have centered around how the project will impact livability in the surrounding neighborhoods, with multiple people speaking about potential light, noise and air pollution. —

Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026 The fiery atmospheric reentries of satellites would be a source of pollution, too, dumping significant amounts of vaporized metal and plastic into our planet’s fragile upper atmosphere. —

Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026 The region’s heavy oil production has also led to water pollution. —

Antonio MacHado Allison, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pollution

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The Cape Fear River supplies drinking water to more than 500,000 residents, but contamination from the expansion project would disproportionately harm people in low-income and minority populations.

— Patrick Sisson, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2026
From small towns along the Mississippi to suburban cities like Crest Hill, the drinking water of more than 400,000 Illinoisans is at risk of contamination.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026