vapor
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Water vapor tracking simulations showed that the dipole circulation directed moist air from the midlatitude Indian Ocean toward East Antarctica and allowed more atmospheric rivers to reach the continent.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
In the simulations, exposing Earth's atmosphere to a dense, cold cloud of galactic hydrogen increased atmospheric water vapor and changed conditions in the upper atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Believe it or not, water vapor is actually the most potent and efficient greenhouse gas.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Condensation occurs when water vapor changes into liquid water.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
People moved like blue vapor lights on the cobbled avenues, and there were faint murmurs of sound, and odd animals scurrying across the gray-red sands.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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Did he inhale too deeply the vapors of power?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
The Orange County health officer and fire officials have insisted there have been no vapors or chemical leaks over the course of the six-day crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
Authorities said if people are exposed to vapors they need to find fresh air or receive oxygen if they have trouble breathing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Tens of thousands told to evacuate as a tank of methyl methacrylate at an aerospace plastics facility poses a risk of leaking potentially toxic vapors in the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
He opened a world where a tropical rain forest steamed and dripped, and where vapors laden with heavy scent drifted out into the thin mountain air.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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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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For a time he stormed about the Moorish halls, and vapored about the bastions, and looked down fire and sword upon the palace of the captain-general.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
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 Gordon Sellar
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 Douglas Duer
"I don't care so much about the money," vapored Sube; "but I'm goin' to be awful tired when I get through cuttin' the lawn."
From Sube Cane by Edward Bellamy Partridge
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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She saw herself as the most useless, vaporing and purblind of mortals.
From Septimus by William John Locke
One heard that he was preaching higher wages in the public houses, another that he was asking Hodge what he got out of dear bread, a third that he was vaporing about commons and enclosures.
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
Brown, either do this, or cease your empty vaporing against the proscriptive features of our system, as you are pleased to style it.
From Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors by William Gannaway Brownlow
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