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Recent Examples of sulfurous
Concerts have taken place in a pineapple greenhouse, a tea factory, and even a geothermal bath, where 800 attendees soaked in sulfurous yellow water while listening to the ethereal electro-pop of Basque singer-songwriter Verde Prato.
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Philip Sherburne, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
Even for people like me who enjoy transforming leftovers into rocket fuel for their garden, composting can turn into a foul, stinking, sulfurous mess.
—Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
The water’s sulfurous smell prevents anyone from actually chugging the stuff.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
The team used soda pulping as one part of the process—boiling the raw material in lye as opposed to the sulfurous byproducts found in traditional (kraft) pulping—to make manufacturing more sustainable.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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Philip Sherburne, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
Even for people like me who enjoy transforming leftovers into rocket fuel for their garden, composting can turn into a foul, stinking, sulfurous mess.
—Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
The water’s sulfurous smell prevents anyone from actually chugging the stuff.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
The team used soda pulping as one part of the process—boiling the raw material in lye as opposed to the sulfurous byproducts found in traditional (kraft) pulping—to make manufacturing more sustainable.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sulfurous
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There, the adults mate, and the mass erupts like an infernal, infectious volcano, spewing out eggs.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
13 Aug. 2025
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Roughly once a week, Nick Cave blogs about music, religion, grief, and the infernal state of world affairs through the medium of fan correspondence in his Red Hand Files newsletter.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
29 July 2025
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The stakes are high for exoplanets, too, where a small push in atmosphere, clouds, or volcanism could lock worlds into hellish states.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Lost Bus takes us inside the hellish inferno of the 2018 Camp fire that decimated the town of Paradise in Northern California.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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Aeacus, a judge of the dead, and Thanatos, winged daemon of death, are chthonic.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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That’s because the Greeks distinguished between Olympian gods, who lived on Mt. Olympus, and chthonic gods, who lived in the underworld.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Sulfurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sulfurous. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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