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[shroud] / ʃraʊd /


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To each shroud he attached a note in red: “This shroud must not be opened under any circumstances.”

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 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

The shows are part of her biggest tour to date, which showcases a newfound confidence - in terms of styling, sass and choreography - from an artist who initially performed under a shroud of anonymity.

From BBC Feb. 23, 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

Bits of truly unusable fabric shoved into a ticking shroud.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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

Dozens of relatives and mourners gathered at Nasser Hospital, where the bodies of some of those killed were laid out in white shrouds.

From Barron's Feb. 15, 2026

Rescuers could not find enough funeral shrouds for all the bodies.

From BBC Oct. 1, 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

I asked, praying he didn’t have burial shrouds hidden at the bottom of that trunk.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

The historic El Escorial monastery -- a major tourist attraction -- was shrouded in a grayish, smoke-filled mist.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

No counterculture event is more shrouded in hype than this annual gathering of thrill-seekers, Instagram influencers, billionaires and whichever artists can still afford to attend.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

On Sunday, U.S. striker Folarin Balogun had his red-card suspension revoked through a process that is shrouded in mystery but already dripping with controversy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

England's seismic meeting against the co-hosts in Mexico City was suddenly shrouded in uncertainty.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

As the sailors lifted the shrouded body for the third time, it trembled.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Then Levi’s went further, shrouding real-life signs at stores across the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

Later, I took a 20-minute drive to Al Sahab Park, a short distance outside Abha, crowded with people admiring the evening mist shrouding Jabal Soudah, the country’s highest peak at 9,892 feet.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 28, 2025

The toxic haze shrouding the Indian capital, Delhi, spares no-one, but its children are counting the biggest cost of the city's worsening and recurrent pollution problem.

From BBC Nov. 26, 2025

There is, however, a palpable disconnect between the jest shrouding the account in these posts and the reception evident in the comment sections.

From Slate Feb. 27, 2024

The wind died down, and a fog slowly rolled over the city, shrouding the streets, but I was on familiar ground, and I knew the way.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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