ambient
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New York City residents live with an ambient soundtrack of emergency sirens, subway screeches and I’m-walking-here arguments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
In that case, the liquid ends up at car temperature, which is considerably higher than ambient.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
"In the end, we optimized the conditions to a practical level and, under ambient temperatures, achieved PEG-modified cleaving efficiency above 91% at 50°C within just one to two hours," stated Inagaki, the study's first author.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
A quick check revealed a fist-sized chunk of frozen drool blocking the rubber valve that admitted ambient air into the mask from the atmosphere.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing ambient
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Around and Around: Ambi
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