atmospheric
n.— «The hard part to deal with is that women and children shop in markets, so the person who planned and executed the bombing was clearly targeting women and children. I had been in that exact market only days earlier meeting vendors, talking to locals and collecting “atmospherics.”» —“Journal: ’ThunderCat6′ gets to know Baghdad” by Tom Deierlein MSNBC July 28, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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