shroud
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Now, during high marmot season between May and July, blue, green and beige tarps shroud most cars at Mineral King, which sits below jagged Sierra Nevada peaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But that still left space for Kim to expand the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile program under a shroud of secrecy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
Silena’s shroud was hot pink, but embroidered with an electric spear.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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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
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
They are very graphic and show bodies lined up in the courtyard of a mosque, covered with shrouds and blankets.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024
The sun, emerged from its gray shrouds of clouds, shone with a summer brillance on the untouched slopes.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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Billowing smoke has shrouded the state capital Manaus for days, while the El Nino climate phenomenon threatens to exacerbate drought in the Amazon.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
His passenger arrives—a young woman in high heels, shrouded in perfume and soaked by the rain, reassuring someone on the phone that she’ll be home soon—and the taxi rolls off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The circumstances around their deaths are shrouded in mystery even as the search has concluded at a property in Lancaster where law enforcement spent two days digging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
But the ancient world in which early eukaryotes evolved remains shrouded in mystery.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
The streetlights were dim, leaving most of the corners and alleyways shrouded in darkness.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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The overarching question shrouding the film is not, “Did they do it?” but rather, “So what if they did?”
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Toiling around the clock, haggard Indonesian firefighters on Borneo island cannot keep up with the blazes devouring landscapes and shrouding communities in a cloying haze.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
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
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
When all was burned they quenched the flame with wine and gathered the bones into a golden urn, shrouding them in soft purple.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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