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
Laboratories, experiments, tables, classifications are all very vital and all very necessary but sometimes their net result is only to befog and confuse.
From The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon
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 Allen Johnson
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
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
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
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 Edward Payson Roe
When he had stirred Driscoll out of his dejection enough to make him want to fight, he deigned to clear the atmosphere of that befogging downpour in Texas.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
He remained silent a moment, as if struggling to clear his heavy head of befogging weights.
From The Salamander by Owen Johnson
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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