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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of smog.

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Examples

  • Chen and his colleagues suggest that "greening" coastal cities up would help to strengthen the sea breeze, replacing choking smogs with fresh clean air.

    Weatherwatch: Hot and sticky in Houston 2011

  • In the Irish Republic, winter smogs in the 1980s led to the sale of bituminous coal being banned in Dublin in 1990.

    Pollutionwatch 2011

  • While it's still far away from the pea-soup smogs of yore, the Old Smoke still has these air quality problems.

    Light the blue touchpaper and retire to a safe distance 2008

  • Mixed with pollution from the growing number of heavy industries in northern China, the particles create photochemical smogs in Korea, Japan, and toxic winds that blow across the Pacific to the west coast of the United States, adding the problem of “global dimming” to that of global warming.5

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Mixed with pollution from the growing number of heavy industries in northern China, the particles create photochemical smogs in Korea, Japan, and toxic winds that blow across the Pacific to the west coast of the United States, adding the problem of “global dimming” to that of global warming.5

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The bad old days of pea-soup smogs may be distant memories, but the modern version of air pollution is still very much a feature of capital life.

    London's Big Smoke wins dubious European distinction Derek Brown 2010

  • Mixed with pollution from the growing number of heavy industries in northern China, the particles create photochemical smogs in Korea, Japan, and toxic winds that blow across the Pacific to the west coast of the United States, adding the problem of “global dimming” to that of global warming.5

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Yes, my mother (then a young adult) remembers the London smogs - they used to creep under the doors like thick smoke.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Try to go to a higher elevation and one cannot miss to see the thick smogs that dot above the skycrapers at the city skylines.

    Are oil firms in cahoots with energy officials? 2008

  • Los Angeles and London also have and have had their smogs.

    Technology, Affluence and the Optimum Population Trust James 2008

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