fog
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These subdued the psychosis but produced a mental fog that affected his ability to work and demoralized him profoundly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Dust in the disk scatters light from the central star, creating an effect similar to fog.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
More impressively, Melton manages to exhale a puff of smoke so thick that cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck can still see it through the set’s fog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Saturday night will see largely clear skies for the first half of the night with fog forming across northern and eastern Scotland.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The Mallons’ house was a black smudge in the fog, the stone walls sleeping, the worn path quiet as we tiptoed over it.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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A fountain on the back patio roars, fogs and mists at patrons.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
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
In the six decades since, fogs of time closed in on the Villa Weil.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
With so much of the “sanitarium belt” spread across hot, bright Southern California, why, then, open one next to the ocean, with its damp, lung-swaddling fogs?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
He felt himself surrounded by dense, overwhelming fogs of possibilities in which he could perceive no glimmer of light.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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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
And for several days, trial coverage was fogged by TV footage of campus protests.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
It's a little fogged up, so I draw a smiley face.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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CDC officials are working with state and local officials to do more real-world field testing, including experiments in which mosquitoes placed in cages outdoors are checked after an insecticide fogging truck passes by.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
It was closed and the glass was fogging up with condensation.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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
Dimple dissolved into sobs, her glasses fogging over, snot leaking from her nose.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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