effluence
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In these homes, effluence from toilets and showers flows through drains into a pit in a yard instead of into a sewer line and to a central wastewater treatment plant.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
So many words, words upon words, the effluence of the dialogue being the show’s draw, as well as one of its drawbacks.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2020
The combined effluence of 400-plus Antarctic lakes no doubt exerts a significant influence on the Southern Ocean’s chemistry and biology.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 12, 2020
Green sludge came to represent the effluence of government and industry—toxic waste as literal and figurative pollution.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2016
Eusapia spreads a black woollen shawl over her silk skirt and shows me the luminous effluence.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
Vocabulary lists containing effluence
By the Roots: Fluere: to flow (flu-)
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