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It’s also possible the miasmas of their lives and interests will swirl off in other directions for any number of other reasons independent of how they feel about each other.

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2021

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

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2018

If one bought into the dangers of miasmas, it wasn’t much of a leap to buy into the dangers of one’s own internal sewage.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2013

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

Swamps cover the ground, and exhale their poisonous miasmas.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel