haze

On Thursday, thick haze of smoke blocked views across New York City, including the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

TORONTO—Hundreds of out-of-control wildfires are burning in Canada, shrouding skies there and the U.S. in an eerie yellow-gray haze and forcing the evacuation of dozens of communities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Through my glass, Barrio de las Letras fades into its own rosy haze.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

By the time Emmet Sheehan took the mound, the smell had diluted, and the sunshine broke through the haze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

A dull haze clouded her vision, but through it she could just make out Fedu and Adiah.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

They also found that the previous study's detection of hazes could instead be caused by star spots on the star's surface, highlighting the importance of considering the star in the analysis.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024

Those hazes then venture into the dayside, and are vaporized in the heat.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023

In near-infrared imaging, high-altitude hazes typically appear blurry, with enhanced brightness over the equatorial region.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2023

The dark spot is likely he result of mixing hazes and ices.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2023

And there was the quiet terror that suffused my senses when vast hazes of gold washed earthward from star-heavy skies on silent nights .

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Equally normal, as far as Perales was concerned, was a Detroit skyline hazed by the fume-spewing Marathon petroleum refinery.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023

DiNardo said he went so far as to make a team rule against joining fraternities that hazed their pledges.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

“I think these players have the right to be respected and valued and not hazed, intimidated and retaliated.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

Because he didn’t join until the early ‘90s, keyboardist Rubén Valtierra is still considered the “new guy” in the band and gets hazed accordingly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

The sky hazed over during the afternoon, and the temperature began to drop.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

“I saw it as affectionate hazing and acceptance into the group.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

But Mr. Warsh knows this hazing is what he signed up for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

But the objects of his hazing are publicly unfazed.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

We were then, indeed, challenged and tested, with a slew of activities that added up to little more than a light hazing to bond us.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2025

We got the presidents of the sorority as our “big sisters,” which meant that throughout pledging, we escaped a lot of the hazing.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers