vapor
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Essentially, cloud seeding speeds up the natural process of water vapor condensing inside of clouds.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
“Believe it or not, water vapor is actually the most potent and efficient greenhouse gas.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Colder air can hold less water vapor, which normally acts like an insulating blanket around Earth.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
The first phase appeared gradually across the material, somewhat like liquid water steadily becoming vapor.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Clouds of vapor came from their mouths as they shouted back and forth to one another.
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
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As the bark burned, tar vapors condensed against the cooler surface, leaving behind a sticky residue that could be collected.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The argument they’re advancing, as I can tell, is constructed out of preemption vapors.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
Did he inhale too deeply the vapors of power?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Southern California is bracing for a possible leak or explosion of toxic vapors from a damaged tank that has forced thousands of people to evacuate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
“Now then, now then, now then,” said Slughorn, whose massive outline was quivering through the many shimmering vapors.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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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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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 Lafcadio Hearn
"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
You may imagine what a passion I was in when I vapored and blustered in that way.
From The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins
Ben and his brother eked out the profits of the dairy by occasional labor, and Ben had sometimes vapored in tap-rooms where he had better have held his tongue.
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
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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Alone he faced the roystering Morton at Merrymount, unarming that vaporing rebel and putting his riotous colony upon its good behavior.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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 N. (Nathaniel) Ames
But, as I have before shown, he was not a man to vent his spleen in idle vaporing.
From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving
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