befog
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After adding befog, we’ve guessed more than three letters for more than 96 percent of all puzzles we might face in Wordle, in four guesses.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2022
No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired the title to "The Greatest."
From Time Magazine Archive
To color it up and hang it in a gallery of horrors, or to befog it with verbal turnings and twistings, are equally serious mistakes.
From The Third Great Plague A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People by Stokes, John H. (John Hinchman)
He did not seek to befog a question by an extensive quotation of authorities.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885 by Various
She was hurt, but she did not let the hurt befog her sense of justice.
From Parrot & Co. by MacGrath, Harold
So many years later, the “idealism” of that moment proved to be a mirage, viewed through the befogged lens of hubris, clouded by lies.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
The Steilhang exuded the full gloom of a north face at befogged dawn.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
But then you arrive and everything is damp, blurred, befogged.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018
Last week, on the second anniversary of the Charter,* U.N.'s record was still befogged by the optimists and the cynics.
From Time Magazine Archive
When you shout Durham! the gloomy and befogged financial atmosphere becomes clear and there is a mad rush and scramble for her bonds.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and befogging the stars.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘Love’: 1647; a manifest befogging duplication of the ‘love’ in the preceding line.
From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Stanley, Thomas
Instances of this effort to secure an advantage by an adroit befogging of the question will occur to everyone who has followed the discussion of our subject.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
It clears away some of the clouds befogging us.
From Initials Only by Green, Anna Katharine
But Holymead vamped up all sorts of surmises and suppositions for the purpose of befogging the jury and getting their minds away from the outstanding feature of the case for the prosecution.
From The Hampstead Mystery by Watson, John R. (John Reay)
