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
And we should not befog the issue by saying that this is degrading.
From Industrial Progress and Human Economics by Hartness, James
Sir," with calm energy, "man came into this world, not to sit down and muse, not to befog himself with vain subtleties, but to gird up his loins and to work.
From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman
In such wise, Douglas labored to befog and discredit the issues for which the new party stood.
From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen
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
She wasn’t befogged, as their father had been.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019
A modest wooden structure, it is planned "like a wide-angle camera" to take utmost advantage of the frequently befogged Sausalito daylight, has clear glass over half its front and rear elevations.
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
He remained silent a moment, as if struggling to clear his heavy head of befogging weights.
From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen
It clears away some of the clouds befogging us.
From Initials Only by Green, Anna Katharine
And if he didn't he'd tell you so, without befogging the atmosphere with a lot of things he did know, but that wouldn't help you in the least.
From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Wood, Robert Williams
These entailed not only befogging at the time, but disillusionment thereafter.
From This Freedom by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
