blanketing
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"We're blanketing out thousands of young men and women," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Machado’s team spent months blanketing Washington earlier this year to lobby U.S. officials and lawmakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The vast Southeast Asian archipelago has for weeks been fighting wildfires blanketing parts of Borneo and Sumatra with smog, with haze also contributing to air pollution in Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
Over the next week, the fire continued to burn through dense insulation foam within the building’s walls and other unknown industrial materials, blanketing much of L.A. in acrid smoke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
On summit day that year, Hall’s team had reached the South Summit late, around 1:30 p.m., to find deep, unstable snow blanketing the final stretch of the summit ridge.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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