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air well

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noun

  1. a ventilating shaft in a building.


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Even just opening the windows and turning on an air-conditioning system can “substantially decrease the amount of virus in the air well over 50%,” Chan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2022

It has helped keep planes in the air, well over a billion automobiles on the roads and plastics in the kitchen — the underpinnings of the contemporary economy.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2022

Once known as simply a player that scored around the basket, he had the confidence to leave his wrist in the air well after he took the shot.

From Fox News ● Mar. 9, 2022

He also has instincts and plays the ball in the air well.

From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 17, 2011

Between the supports set an iron vessel—build your hickory smoke-fires in it, smothering them carefully, and letting the smoke, with a sufficiency of air, well up, through barrel, hogshead, etc.

From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by Martha McCulloch-Williams

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