miasma

Example Sentences

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Take, for example, Kennedy’s staunch rejection of germ theory in favor of “miasma theory.”

From Salon

The harvest of that change was an inaugural meeting of the new panel that was enveloped in a miasma of confused, uninformed debate.

From Los Angeles Times

Most are unable to rise above the stylistic miasma of the production — Whitehead sounds narcotized even when Pip isn’t on drugs — or the entirely new words they’ve been asked to say.

From Los Angeles Times

But to get there, a reader has to wade through a miasma of awkward phrasing in this clunky English translation by Daniel Hahn.

From Washington Post

TAYLORSVILLE, Calif. — Captured by an astronaut’s camera, the Dixie Fire appears as a thick and sickening miasma pouring from the earth’s surface.

From New York Times