vapor
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The first approach uses hydrodynamic cavitation, which creates and collapses tiny vapor bubbles in contaminated water.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
The observations revealed an atmosphere containing water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia and other molecules.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
Additionally, a reference to the vapor release came in a hazardous materials spill report issued on May 21 by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
The emergency started Thursday, when the fire department responded to a vapor leak from a 34,000-gallon tank at a Garden Grove, Calif., plant belonging to GKN Aerospace, a British maker of jet parts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
Snowflakes cling to my hair, and vapor curls around my mouth with each breath.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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Did he inhale too deeply the vapors of power?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
They were a toxic organization coasting on a grand arena and the vapors of memories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
“There was no contamination, there were no fumes, there were no vapors that came from this incident. There was no leak.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
An industrial tank at a plant in Garden Grove, Calif., about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles, has been leaking vapors since at least Thursday, authorities said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
She thinks: They just say words, and what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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The Tribune must have more "kick," so it vapored about "a few daring New Yorkers" venturing into the "far West," discovering Chicago and telling their friends about it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mackenzie vapored and complained of others, formed plans one hour to change the next, and demonstrated the weakness of his shallow nature.
From The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 by Sellar, Gordon
The suck of fresh air under pressure, vapored like steam, whirled around them in gusts, and the water oozed and rippled beside 109 their feet as they went forward.
From The Plunderer by Duer, Douglas
High over all this billowing and peaking tower the Pitons of Carbet, gem-violet through the vapored miles,—the tallest one filleted with a single soft white band of cloud.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
"She needn't to have done that about her piano," vapored Mr. Vertrees.
From The Turmoil, a novel by Tarkington, Booth
The press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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His teachings were but vaporing talk to her small mind and to those of many of the people.
From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
Must not the vaporing Burgoyne, who, it is said, possesses great sensibility, be humbled to the dust?
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail
He immediately commenced, in his usual style of vaporing and flourish, as though this Yankee ship, arriving without his knowledge and consent, had compromised the welfare of the Spanish monarchy.
From An Old Sailor's Yarns by Ames, N. (Nathaniel)
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