polluted
Example Sentences
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The Journal reported in March that Mr. Piñón believes new power plants have to be built because the existing ones sit on polluted land.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Some 93% of the world’s children, she said, live in polluted air, and pollution hits home with her own kids, and the asthma that disproportionately afflicts L.A.’s kids.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Soaring black-market prices of cooking gas in India's capital are pushing poorer families back to wood and coal, raising health risks and worsening air quality in the highly polluted megacity.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
To women nodding along while reading tales of alpine divorces and ghostlighting filling their social media feeds, Fusco is the typical catch in the increasingly polluted dating pool.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
Rich city folks, he’d say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn’t even see the stars.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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