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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

Pain at the pump may already be casting a pall over the mall.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

Charles’s sister Caroline and Emma’s brother Josiah were there, but their infant was very ill, which set a pall over the whole day.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

Especially notable are two chalice palls — or covers — about 7 inches square whose plant motifs are very bold in scale.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 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

“We had palls of smoke across our three major cities.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021

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