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marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
a pompous professor known for his gaseous lectures that often put students to sleep
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Chlorine is unstable and, when released, can create a gaseous and toxic plume, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
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Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2024
Beyond the snow line, water is solid and aggregates readily into nascent planets and asteroids, whereas within the line, water remains gaseous and is harder to capture.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2025
Already the busy schedule has another limitation for turning around launches, the use of the commodities like gaseous nitrogen and propellants that have to be flowed to the launch pads, which is mostly done now through a contract with NASA for KSC and Cape Canaveral pads.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2025
Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula, or M42 – the 42nd object in Messier’s catalog – while others were star clusters such as the Pleiades, or M45.
—Chris Impey, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
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Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2024
Beyond the snow line, water is solid and aggregates readily into nascent planets and asteroids, whereas within the line, water remains gaseous and is harder to capture.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2025
Already the busy schedule has another limitation for turning around launches, the use of the commodities like gaseous nitrogen and propellants that have to be flowed to the launch pads, which is mostly done now through a contract with NASA for KSC and Cape Canaveral pads.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2025
Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula, or M42 – the 42nd object in Messier’s catalog – while others were star clusters such as the Pleiades, or M45.
—Chris Impey, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Gaseous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaseous. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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