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
Silena’s shroud was hot pink, but embroidered with an electric spear.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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Mystery still shrouds Zhang’s escape in July, following a late night court hearing in Mexico City when a judge unexpectedly granted him house arrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
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 production design by Tamara Deverell is superb as are the costumes by Kate Hawley, who shrouds Goth in dramatic chiffon layers and dresses laced to highlight her vertebrae.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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
A few feet away from her, three towering golden shrouds stood glowing in the middle of the street.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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U.S. states’ methods for obtaining the drugs used in carrying out executions are shrouded in secrecy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
But the ancient world in which early eukaryotes evolved remains shrouded in mystery.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
“She found it slightly easier to talk to me of her anorexia than she ever did her bulimia. That condition she shrouded with secrecy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
However, the future of the concept - and its star players - has been shrouded in uncertainty, with the 2026 season having ended early.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Abay sat next to him, shrouded in a gauzy white scarf, as if hiding from the camera.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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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
Veteran hearts at this contained their dread while at your side the daughters of the ancient seagod wailed and wrapped ambrosial shrouding around you.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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