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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

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

Experience usually demonstrates, however, that an estimate in only the necessary detail escapes the danger inherent in undue detail which would tend to befog the main issues.

From Sound Military Decision by Edward C. (Edward Clifford) Kalbfus

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

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

Instead of being buried under documents, befogged by facts, you find yourself in the immediate, proximate, breathing presence of another human being — and there’s suddenly no room for anything else.

From Washington Post

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

But meantime— meantime… There is no doubt that when the frantic man realized his befogging ignorance, and found himself involved in this dreadful delay, the hotel clerk's apprehensions were, at least for wild moments, justified.

From The Iron Woman by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

He had not been German long enough for befogging his mind to that point, but the moment was decisive for much to come, especially for political morals.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The greatest trouble comes through the befogging emotions.

From Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call

Philadelphia lawyers are exceedingly astute, and are able to confuse the simplest propositions, thus hopelessly befogging judge and jury.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard