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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

The warmest the Three Lions have played in was 25C for the final group game against Panama, but that featured overcast skies.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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

We ate blackberries off and on all that second morning, which was cold and damp and overcast.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

Why that ominous redness which overcasts the heavens?

From The Second Deluge by Garrett Putman Serviss

Suddenly it drives down before it a storm which overcasts the blue sky, so that it is pitch dark in the valley.

From Timar's Two Worlds by Mór Jókai

And should the river of our happy laughter Flow 'neath a sky no cloud yet overcasts, We will not fear the shadows coming after, But make the most of sunshine while it lasts.

From Yule-Tide in Many Lands by L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

They looked very threatening, blowing so suddenly over the mountain top, overcasting the brightness of the way.

From The Innocent Adventuress by Mary Hastings Bradley

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

Heavy rain-clouds were overcasting the sky when we set out, and we had scarcely covered the eleven miles of unmade road that connects Batala with Gadian when the downpour commenced, and continued throughout the day.

From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell