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
It's just a theory, and good detectives distrust theories, which often befog clever brains.
From Mary Louise Solves a Mystery by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
She rose, and, approaching the table, handed him the timetable, a diabolical labyrinth of incomprehensible figures and words specially compiled by railroad managers to puzzle and befog the traveling public.
From The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life by Walter, Eugene
The object of writing a book is not to befog the reader's mind.
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Klickmann, Flora
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
As always with the royal family, details about its internal deliberations are elusive and befogged in speculation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2021
She wasn’t befogged, as their father had been.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 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
And he knew why a cloud was thus effectually befogging his wits.
From Number Seventeen by Tracy, Louis
It clears away some of the clouds befogging us.
From Initials Only by Green, Anna Katharine
A man finally gets justice at the bar of his own conscience, but it is extorted gradually, reluctantly, with much befogging of the case.
From Opening a Chestnut Burr by Roe, Edward Payson
He remained silent a moment, as if struggling to clear his heavy head of befogging weights.
From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen
