noxious
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“Marble Hall Murders,” in which Lesley Manville returns as book-editor/sleuth Susan Ryeland, opens with a teenage coven of druidic pharmacists mixing a noxious potion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Wildfires burning in Canada have sent the noxious smog billowing across the border, with residents in New York, Washington and the US Midwest urged to stay indoors due to dangerously low air quality.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Ashley Hernandez, a Wilmington resident and organizer with the nonprofit Communities for a Better Environment, said bloody noses and noxious fumes were a regular part of life in the neighborhood growing up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
“It’ll certainly be smelly and noxious, and bacteria and things are going to be growing in it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
But the foul air was thick and oppressive, clinging to us as if anything new, clean, and fresh had to be contaminated by this noxious atmosphere or it wouldn’t survive.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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