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
Notions like that befog one's mind; one rants of universal brotherhood, of liberty and equality and, of course, transcends every convention and every moral law….
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Gerhart Hauptmann
Hooker's retreat with his great army into the Wilderness had given his enemies a chance to befog and bewilder him.
From The Star of Gettysburg A Story of Southern High Tide by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
It's just a theory, and good detectives distrust theories, which often befog clever brains.
From Mary Louise Solves a Mystery by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Overruling those just to appease your clearly befogged co-parent is a bad habit to get into right as you’re starting this journey.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022
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
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
His course stretched before him—through the befogging, unmanning sweetness—to daylight and self-respect and an uncompromising sincerity of life.
From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
Perhaps they are approaching this part of the earth like comet that carries its tail before it, and I am already enveloped in a disturbing, befogging nebulosity.
From A Kentucky Cardinal by James Lane Allen
"Save us from hurt and harm, friend, but I am already married—" Then resolutely Jurgen put aside the spell that was befogging him.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
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 John R. (John Reay) Watson
