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fog

[fog, fawg] / fɒg, fɔg /




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At the time, rescuers said he was in a "very isolated and hard-to-access mountain area" and the weather conditions were extremely severe with strong winds, heavy snowfall, and dense fog.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

A December day in Stalingrad in 1942: “The dark clouds shed their burden, then brightened and climbed higher into the sky. The fog froze, settling as a thick white powder on army telegraph cables.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Some coastal areas will see pockets of dense fog, the forecast states.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

Josh Smith, from Wrexham, began experiencing brain fog and headaches in January, but assumed he was "just tired".

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

But the train whistle hooted and the engine roared, and a thick, rolling fog of steam blanketed the station platform.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

I ask myself what the coast, with its chaparral, eucalyptus, wide-mawed canyons and thick seasonal fogs, will look like when I return.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2025

The skyline’s angular visage melted away, as mists and fogs and silvery showers softened edge by edge.

From Seattle Times Sep. 28, 2023

After an almost quarter-century journey hampered by political squalls, economic doldrums, sometimes mutinous crews, and last-minute fogs, this cultural vessel has securely, and handsomely, come to berth here, opening to the public on Tuesday.

From New York Times Jun. 23, 2023

For three solid, unrelieved weeks, the pileup of cyclonic storms has obscured the Northern California coastlines with dense drifting fogs and white mist thrown off huge waves.

From Washington Post Jan. 20, 2023

He knew about fogs and the sneaky ways of human beings.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

Streetcars delivered residents to their errands across the city, windows fogged with condensation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

One of the quiet tragedies of the potluck is that perfectly good food often remains trapped in its travel container — lids half removed, plastic corners fogged with condensation.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2026

Photos on social media showed them slouched on plastic chairs, swathed in plastic bags fogged up by their breath.

From BBC Oct. 2, 2025

She picked up a package of his favorite chocolate macadamia cookies and, in the frozen section, she stuck her forehead up against the fogged glass, smiling when she spotted the SeaPak brand of shrimp scampi.

From Seattle Times Sep. 10, 2023

I pressed my face to the window, which was fogged all around except on the spot I’d rubbed so that I could look out.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

It was closed and the glass was fogging up with condensation.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2023

In older adults, such changes as loss of receptor cells in the ear and eye, fogging of the eye’s lens or loss of functioning in peripheral nerves, motion sickness may either increase or decrease.

From Scientific American May 26, 2023

Wearing a mask comes with some discomfort, including hindering communication and fogging up glasses.

From New York Times Feb. 1, 2023

They practiced breathing exercises: a deep breath in through the nose, an exhale through the mouth, as though fogging a mirror.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 2022

Grace’s breath was fogging up the glass; that’s how close she was to the window.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway




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