ambient
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Two toxic air contaminants present in California’s ambient air, acrolein and ethylene oxide, appear to be much stronger carcinogens than previously known, California environmental health officials announced Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
"We are working on basically adapting our public realm to do a couple of things to help to reduce ambient temperatures," Kit Larson, chief executive of the organization Houston Downtown+, told AFP.
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
The frustration was broader, an ambient sense of national failure in the air.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2026
It extended the Clean Air Act to areas that already have clean air—ones that meet the protective “national ambient air quality standards” set by the Environmental Protection Agency.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Her responses to our son, their laughter, the simple, ambient noise of that time.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Vocabulary lists containing ambient
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Around and Around: Ambi
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for March 27–April 2, 2021
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