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shroud

[shroud] / ʃraʊd /


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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

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

No one could see through the shroud unless she wanted them to.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

To minimize the psychological distress of the families during the burial process, Pourzahedian said he used cotton and paper to reconstruct the physical form of the victims within the shrouds.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 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

She feels cleansed by the sea and the fog that shrouds the world’s ugliness, and believes there is happiness to be salvaged from the wreckage of her past.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 14, 2025

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

From BBC Oct. 1, 2025

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

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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

The site is believed to be buried deep inside the mountain and its exact purpose is shrouded in mystery and speculation.

From BBC Aug. 1, 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

Fire raced up his arm and over his body until he was completely shrouded in a thin veil of flame.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

Among the many mysteries shrouding North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the secrecy around his mother stands out.

From BBC 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

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

She washed the shrouding clean as sun or moonlight.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer




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