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The effect also occurred at illumination levels similar to those found indoors or outside on an overcast day.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Skies are frequently overcast, and winters are cold, gray and gloomy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

It was a cool, overcast day and as the wind rustled the tree leaves, a baby coyote raced across the lawn in the distance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Friday night also might end up quite overcast for many but those patient enough to wait until Saturday night will have the best viewing chances.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

The day had become even more lowering and overcast.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Three months earlier, Blankenship had told mine superintendents to "ignore" requests to build overcasts -- devices that are important for ventilating deadly gases from mines.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2010

Old flying boats venture out and up through pea-soup overcasts, often to rescue flyers from a sea so cold that few men have survived after floating in it for more than 30 minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

When we first called she had just passed her fourth birthday, and now overcasts from three to four pairs of pants every day.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

Good Heavens, my dear, how deeply is your father still immersed in material things! how dense is his understanding, and what gloom overcasts his soul!

From The Pretentious Young Ladies by Molière

If it with anger overcasts the eye, And heaven's bright purity perversely blackens, Then zephyr-sighs straight scare the clouds away, And, changed to tears, dissolve them into rain.

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring

John Goodman can do the oaky solidity, but perhaps might be overcasting.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

The success of overcasting depends largely on the amount of margin at the back, so that care must be taken not to cut more than is absolutely necessary.

From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

It was bright and clear still, though the morning was overcasting a little, as we passed through the meadows.

From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Trim off edges and finish with binding or close overcasting.

From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson

This method takes the place of serging or overcasting and is much better for thin ravelly goods.

From The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Busines by Vanness Copeland