shroud
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Like a giant black shroud, it hung over the Moscow skyline.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
If no one came to identify her, the team would prepare a clean white shroud, wash her according to Muslim custom and bury her nearby.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
“We expect that the shroud of uncertainty created by the conflict will weigh on the PMI this month.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Hidden beneath that thick acoustic engine shroud, the new high-output turbo assembly isn’t much to look at.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The dervish wore a white shroud, covered by a black robe and a black felt cap the shape of a thimble.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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The upgrade includes tarted up air-inlet shrouds on the side and louvered panels in the front wings, notionally to help evacuate air pressure at high speed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
An AFP correspondent in Spin Boldak said they saw hundreds of people attending funerals on Thursday, including for children whose bodies were wrapped in white shrouds.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
The news agency also reported seeing bodies wrapped in white shrouds at Nasser hospital.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
Yet despair shrouds Vuong’s characters, immigrants and other outsiders for whom the American Dream isn’t an inkling.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025
The golden shrouds spoke as one: It’s too late for that now.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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The community of Korumburra, where the victims were beloved figures, became shrouded in grief.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
A collaged print by Liu Shiyuan presents a dizzying array of images—fruit, bees, jellyfish, shrouded figures, fabric samples—that is more disorienting than anything else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Joe Biden's 2023 visit to Ukraine was also shrouded in strict secrecy during a long journey by plane and train, though he was accompanied by a reporter and photographer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
There’s something very powerful there: She’s demystifying a process that can still be shrouded in unnecessary secrecy, and making a choice many women have at least considered.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
A lumpy bed, shrouded by a thin white spread, pencil-striped with blue, took up most of the space.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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TORONTO—Hundreds of out-of-control wildfires are burning in Canada, shrouding skies there and the U.S. in an eerie yellow-gray haze and forcing the evacuation of dozens of communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
As a blue tarp was pulled off it, audience members could hear a snapping noise as the bronze figure it was shrouding suddenly appeared to drop in height.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
She wrote that the government seemed to be concealing key information from the court and shrouding data in this studiously ambiguous language.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025
Even then, Reagan was helped greatly by the restive climate stemming from the Watts riots, widespread campus unrest and voter fatigue shrouding the incumbent, Jerry Brown’s father, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
Only Joshua took any enjoyment from the rabbinical complexity shrouding his recent papers.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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