smoggy

The cashier at the local Chopt admitted to me that foot traffic had slowed significantly this week, even before the smoggy conditions set in.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

“If there’s a layer where there’s smoggy or particle stuff, then it’s suppressed closer to the ground, so that makes the situation worse,” Ciliberti said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

“You’ve probably noticed that the air looks smoggy today—that’s the particulate matter,” Cohan, the Rice University professor, said via email that day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

It was often hot, dusty and smoggy and even though she had spent two weeks beforehand doing sessions in a heat chamber to acclimatise, it was unlike anything she had ever experienced.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

The land is covered by a thick, smoggy haze.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Despite increasingly warmer, smoggier summers, I rarely shed my shirt to run in just my sports bra.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2024

And now, in addition to pollution, regulators are contending with climate change, conditions scientists say could lead to a smoggier future.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022

Bangalore now reminds him of the Silicon Valley, and Beijing and New Delhi are smoggier than anything he had ever encountered at home.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 17, 2014

On some days, and by some measures, Salt Lake City is smoggier than Beijing.

From Economist ● Jan. 30, 2014

When alone, the old smoggier said: "Now, speak out, young man!"

From The Dock Rats of New York by Harlan Page Halsey

A midday local kickoff would put the game squarely in the hottest, smoggiest part of the day in a move that England fears would only enhance Mexico’s home-field advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Despite decades of progress in reducing air pollution, Los Angeles is still the nation’s smoggiest city, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Assn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

Though not necessarily a high bar to clear — Greater Los Angeles has long carried the title of nation’s smoggiest metropolitan area in the annual American Lung Assn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023

They were checking to make sure villagers in Tangshan’s Fengrun district — one of China’s smoggiest spots — had quit burning coal for heat.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021

Henan's Anyang, which ranked as China's smoggiest city in 2020, failed to meet a requirement to close 6.6 million tonnes of inefficient coking capacity last year, the ministry said.

From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2021