ambient
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Public and communal resources can be easy to undervalue precisely because so much of their worth is ambient.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
In that case, the liquid ends up at car temperature, which is considerably higher than ambient.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“The amount varies markedly on individuals based on weight, sweat rates and ambient temperatures,” says Dr. Joseph G. Verbalis, chief of endocrinology and metabolism at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Matthew Robert Cooper’s unnerving ambient score bleeds into the relentless dink-dink-dink of the Jeep’s strobing hazard lights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
These include not only all of the genres of music, the verbal languages, and accents, but also the mechanical, digital, human, and animal noises, and all of the ambient sounds around us.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Vocabulary lists containing ambient
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Around and Around: Ambi
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