smoggy
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American flags waved as “The Star Spangled Banner” rang out on a smoggy day in the heart of the capital.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
The notoriously smoggy air of Mexico City has gotten much clearer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Authorities once again issued an alert on Friday, a common occurrence on smoggy winter days, with cleaner air expected by Sunday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
The mask and Delhi's smoggy air feature in other scenes of the film but are of little relevance to its plot.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024
Now, on hot, smoggy summer days, visibility can be as little as two miles and never more than thirty.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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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 Halsey, Harlan Page
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
The South Coast air district — a 6,700-square-mile basin spanning Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties — has long held the title as the smoggiest region in the nation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022
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
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