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
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
Men who do not wish to do their duty purposely befog great issues by noisy talk and tiresome academic discussions of trivial details; and such men are the curse and scourge of reform movements.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
It could be done only by one whom all the world had conspired to befog and befool about his importance in the scheme of things.
From The Convert by Elizabeth Robins
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
The greatest trouble comes through the befogging emotions.
From Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call
‘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 Thomas Stanley
These entailed not only befogging at the time, but disillusionment thereafter.
From This Freedom by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
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
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