miasma

As I emerged from my children’s earliest years—a miasma of Duplo blocks, nursing pads and sleepless nights—I felt utterly depleted, not just in a physical sense but in a creative one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

There’s some truth to this, but the overarching emphasis on miasma theory fundamentally ignores how the immune system works.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025

They were interning at a local dance studio, teaching yoga to kids and unsteadily emerging from a miasma of childhood depression.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

Another took footage inside, a miasma of smoke quickly obscuring the camera lens as passengers shouted and cabin crew tried to direct their next moves.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

A miasma of cinder-flecked smoke blackened its streets and at times reduced visibility to the distance of a single block, especially in winter, when coal furnaces were in full roar.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Miasma theory, the idea that disease was spread by miasmas of bad air, is discredited.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021

Modern warfare creates miasmas of emotion, information, misinformation, deception and secrecy.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2018

Soon germs became even more frightening than miasmas.

From Salon ● May 21, 2012

It was not difficult, then, to accept the idea that foul-smelling toilets, drains, and the huge piles of horse manure that lined city streets harbored dangerous bacteria instead of miasmas.

From Salon ● May 21, 2012

The earliest fools who turned up the bog ores for wealth," he said, "released the miasmas which slew all the people roundabout.

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

Were it not for the miasmata which infect the atmosphere, the valleys of Aroa and of Yaracuy would perhaps be more populous than those of Aragua.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

The lungs thus become a ready inlet to contagion, miasmata, and other poisonous influences diffused through the air we breathe.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Ira Mayhew

At this point, the atmosphere is loaded with pestilential miasmata.

From Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa by Mungo Park

The nearer they ascended to the clouds of heaven, the freer they were from the miasmata and insects of the swamp.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

It is very extraordinary to see barren savannahs loaded with miasmata.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt