as in haze
an atmospheric condition in which suspended particles in the air rob it of its transparency the city's smog was once so bad that darkness often prevailed, even at noon

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Recent Examples of smog In early April, the Southern Environmental Law Center estimated the turbines could produce, in a year, between 1,200 and 2,000 tons of nitrogen oxides, a smog-forming pollution associated with poor respiratory health in nearby areas, as well as the carcinogen formaldehyde. Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2025 Indeed, orbiting Earth-observation satellites routinely use lasers for light-detection and ranging (lidar) on the planet's surface, despite the clouds and smog, while Chinese scientists have recently conducted the first ever daytime laser-ranging experiment from Earth to the moon. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025 This gentle but thorough cleanser removes all traces of makeup, pollution, and city smog with just one wash. Tanya Akim, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 What was once the season of patios and long days has increasingly turned into one of heat advisories, wildfire smoke, and smog alerts. Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for smog
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  • 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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  • The Defense Secretary, meanwhile, vanishes into a personal fog, thinking only of his daughter (Kaitlyn Dever), who lives in Chicago.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Particularly in the case of the latter two galaxies, the radio jets seem to be interacting with the intra-cluster medium, which is a thick fog of hot plasma that fills galaxy clusters, and this interaction is shaping both the jets and the radio rings.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of the retailing giant, experienced a massive outage in the wee hours of Monday that knocked out what felt like everything.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • By deploying solvers on scalable cloud platforms, firms avoid the need for expensive local hardware, lowering barriers for CAE adoption among businesses.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
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  • This Stephen King adaptation stars Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden and Andre Braugher and tells the story of a small group of people in Bridgton, Maine who meet in a supermarket to find supplies after a thunderstorm and start to notice an eerie mist cloaking the presence of monsters among them.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Its crumbling buildings swallowed by greenery are starkly beautiful and deeply eerie, even more so as the cooler seasons creep in and sea mists descend.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Smog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smog. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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