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
The practise of law to him was to convince, befog or divert the jury; he could do it, and so he applied for permission to practise law.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Hubbard, Elbert
He had a variety of disguises, each designed to befog the public more hopelessly than the last.
From The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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 Hornaday, William Temple
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
It is the dramatization of that inexplicable bewilderment that has befogged men from the first grey light of a primeval dawn.
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 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 Adams, Henry
It clears away some of the clouds befogging us.
From Initials Only by Green, Anna Katharine
Instances of this effort to secure an advantage by an adroit befogging of the question will occur to everyone who has followed the discussion of our subject.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
The greatest trouble comes through the befogging emotions.
From Nerves and Common Sense by Call, Annie Payson
