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free atmosphere

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noun

  1. the part of the atmosphere that lies above the frictional influence of the earth's surface.


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"The free atmosphere that existed is gone and people are worried," says Stephan Ortmann, a political scientist at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University.

From BBC Dec. 13, 2023

Improvising freely, she and Hersch create an intimate, free atmosphere that makes you feel like you’re eavesdropping on a private after-party.

From Seattle Times Jan. 4, 2023

It was a free atmosphere of scientists, maybe too free because nobody cared about making money.

From BusinessWeek Aug. 9, 2012

One or two unenlightened stopgap teachers reacted much like new children to the school's free atmosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the exhilarating effect—upon a prisoner just escaped from the dungeon of his own heart—of breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianised, lawless region.

From The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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