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
Something seemed to bear down on his brain and befog his sight.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
Their position is strongest when they maintain that these topics have a tendency to befog the intellect.
From The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang
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
As always with the royal family, details about its internal deliberations are elusive and befogged in speculation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2021
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
The basic 2-B dispute has been befogged by both sides: by McDonald's charges that the steel industry is out to "bust the union," and by the industry's failure to explain its case to the public.
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
But Holymead vamped up all sorts of surmises and suppositions for the purpose of befogging the jury and getting their minds away from the outstanding feature of the case for the prosecution.
From The Hampstead Mystery by John R. (John Reay) Watson
He remained silent a moment, as if struggling to clear his heavy head of befogging weights.
From The Salamander by Owen Johnson
‘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
And the Tribune dares to make this impudent attempt at befogging the American people, and at the same time dares to tell that people that it is "intelligent."
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
