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pollutant

noun as in contaminant

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Last week, India's Supreme Court relaxed the blanket ban, allowing people to use so-called green crackers, which its makers say emit 20-30% less pollutants than traditional ones and generate minimal ash.

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Cooler air traps pollutants close to the ground, creating a deadly mix of emissions from crop burning, factories and heavy traffic.

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Water produced from oil wells typically contains pollutants and can’t be channeled to streams and lakes.

Best of all, nature does its thing without recourse to leaf blowers, which can release pollutants and damage hearing.

In the poor, mostly Black neighborhoods of South Memphis near the data center, residents said they smelled the pollutants not long after xAI started operations.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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