plume
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It has also verified footage filmed near the market that shows a large plume of smoke, at least one petrol tanker and someone talking about five missiles being fired.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Researchers made the discovery using satellite observations of the huge plume created by the eruption.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Video from the airport showed the plane landing before disappearing from view, followed by a plume of black smoke.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Cars and batteries and plastics and metals and other things were incinerated, and a toxic plume traveled for miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Now I find it has fallen already, and a piece of it is here beside our latrine, one red plume.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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The strikes on the St. Petersburg oil infrastructure, including an oil depot, sent huge plumes of smoke into the air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
As the rocket climbed above Earth carrying a Dragon spacecraft, sunlight illuminated its expanding exhaust plumes, creating an enormous glowing shape that resembled a jellyfish.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Pasadena-based nonprofit Carbon Mapper, which partners with the state, can now check twice as often for climate-heating methane plumes, improving the emerging picture of this invisible gas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Sediment plumes generated by seabed excavation and processing pose significant risks to ecosystems and public health, said marine scientist Bronwen Currie.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Walking up the driveway to the house, stepping over potholes full of rainwater, Joe noticed his father’s Franklin, its engine running, plumes of white exhaust billowing from the tailpipe.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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The showgirl-inspired costume featured a plumed mohawk headdress and showed Cher's bare midriff - a very new, and very shocking look at the time.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
A naming contest has been launched for the two eaglets born earlier this month to proud and plumed parents Jackie and Shadow, the widely followed bald eagle pair whose lives are streamed online.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
We were too far away, or were seated behind the choir, or had our view blocked by a guardsman in a plumed helmet.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023
Radioactive fallout plumed over the area but the public was never warned, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a publication founded in 1945 by nuclear physicists concerned about the dangers of atomic weapons.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
Up the road at a gallop: a handsome horseman, waving a plumed hat in the night.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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Stepping out of the truck, Avery looked up and saw flames and smoke pluming into the night sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2023
Elizabeth Leddy, 28, from Poole said: "The amount of smoke pluming out was like no heath fire I've seen before."
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2022
Crews arrived to find heavy fire and black smoke pluming from the single-level home.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
As we’re now seeing again in other places, the skyline was pluming with smoke, and the National Guard drove in.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2020
Bearing down swiftly, dust pluming around them, the horses pounded in her direction.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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