overcast
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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
She first experienced severe sunburn on an overcast day in May 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
It was overcast outside, but I knew the sun could break through at any moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
When I finally woke, I couldn’t tell what the hour was, because the sky was overcast.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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
Why that ominous redness which overcasts the heavens?
From The Second Deluge by Garrett Putman Serviss
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
John Goodman can do the oaky solidity, but perhaps might be overcasting.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
No pasting on or overcasting to be allowed.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
Stitching makes a stronger book than the old-fashioned whipstitching but cannot compare in strength with the modern overcasting.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
Today every progressive library binder has a special method of overcasting and each claims that his method is the best.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
The object of the overcasting is to prevent raveling while working the buttonhole and the fewer stitches which will accomplish this purpose the better.
From Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care by Idabelle McGlauflin
Vocabulary lists containing overcast
"Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe
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4.1: Causes and Consequences of Iberian Maritime Exploration and Colonialism (Sources 1–12)
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