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  • noun Plural form of atmosphere.

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Examples

  • This accomplished, he came upward slowly, as a swimmer should who is changing atmospheres from the depths.

    THE WATER BABY 2010

  • This accomplished, he came upward slowly, as a swimmer should who is changing atmospheres from the depths.

    The Water Baby 2010

  • (I've found as well that my favorite photos often evoke certain atmospheres or associations.)

    The Effect of Architecture on Home Living 2007

  • ` ` We've played in atmospheres where the whole crowd's against us.

    USATODAY.com - Scores 2005

  • Over another kind of seas, and in atmospheres unknown ....

    Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001

  • My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.

    Walking 1969

  • This accomplished, he came upward slowly, as a swimmer should who is changing atmospheres from the depths.

    The Water Baby 1919

  • My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.

    Walking 1862

  • It is probable that this theory of electric and magnetic attractions and repulsions, which so visibly exist in atmospheres round larger masses of matter, may be applied to explain the invisible attractions and repulsions of the minute particles of bodies in chemical combinations and decompositions, and also to give a clear idea of the attractions of the great masses of matter, which form the gravitations of the universe.

    Note XII 1803

  • Previously studied neutron stars all have hydrogen atmospheres, which is expected, as the intense gravity of the neutron star stratifies the atmosphere, putting the lightest element, hydrogen, on top.

    Neutron Star at Core of Cas A Has Carbon Atmosphere | Universe Today 2009

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