cloud
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Still, there was a cloud of public doubt lingering over the event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Both cloud gaming and AI use the same infrastructure - data centres - to process information.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
He sees scope for the company to report cloud revenue growth of 63% relative to a year earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
CEO Elon Musk on Thursday posted an image on X of a Cybercab looming over the Texas capital city Austin, where Tesla is headquartered, a cloud of dust behind it.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
“A black cloud billowed fast from the south, a thousand feet above the trees. It quickly pulled overhead, and the day grew dim like approaching dusk. It had to be the mountain.”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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They depict a natural world often enlivened with the dramatic splendor of rushing falls, flowing lava, and vivid arrays of sky, clouds and storms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
As gravity pulls those enriched clouds together, they can form rotating disks around young stars, similar to the disk of material that eventually produced our own Solar System.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
It seems the spirit of Carnival has seen off those dark clouds.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
I lay on my back and stared at a bright blue painted sky, dappled with puffy clouds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Nim learned the language of dolphins, about the tiny crabs that float out to sea on their coconut homes, and how to watch the clouds and listen to the wind.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will step up efforts to isolate Iran economically as he hosts G20 counterparts this week, a US official said Thursday, in a gathering clouded by war and trade tensions.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Twelve months ago, the 22-year-old American's game was clouded by uncertainty but returns with more confidence and fluidity in her serve.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Still, her transformation of Parton’s clouded sunshine into a feral ache is stunning.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
The cat haven has been operating for 28 years and houses 39 different cat species, including cheetahs, bobcats, clouded leopards, cougars and snow leopards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
I took a dim, remembered pleasure in being out of doors on so lovely a day, though it was clouded by my recent anguish.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Ash from the eruptions has been clouding the skies over eastern Sicily and has disrupted hundreds of flights at Catania International Airport in the past week.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Today, severe corneal clouding often requires a full corneal transplant.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
But no one who has worked in late-night television in recent years can dispute how financial challenges are clouding the format’s future.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
The markets got an unwelcome reminder today that the war in Iran isn’t over, clouding a picture that’s recently been dominated by sunny earnings reports.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
The sky was clouding over to the east and one after another the stars he knew were gone.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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