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Vietnam, inner-city riots, and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. had cast a pall over the Day-Glo optimism of the Love Generation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Toxic air has covered the San Gabriel Valley and beyond at times, as the fire continues to burn and the wind shifts the pall in different directions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Uncertainty about the trade pact—which has allowed the bulk of Canada’s exports to the U.S. to enter duty free—has cast a pall over investment and hiring plans among businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Pope Leo XIV is set to mark Easter Sunday for the first time as pontiff, with the Middle East war casting a pall over the most important date in the Christian calendar.

From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026

Within a minute of the zeppelin’s hitting the ground it was a mass of twisted metal, a pall of smoke, and a few scraps of fluttering fire.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

The immediate damage is clear to see, with heavy palls of smoke hanging over the blackened and charred landscape, but a conservation expert said the long-term damage could take hundreds of years to repair.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

Her work reminds us that true intimacy never palls.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

But the inconvenience of shopping in tropical heat palls compared with farmers afraid their harvests will be scant due to a lack of fertilizer.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

If the mystery itself palls, you can always luxuriate in Haddish and her one-liners.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

Chicago seemed an unreal city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal wreathed in palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into the dank prairie.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright