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fog

[fog, fawg] / fɒg, fɔg /




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Dust in the disk scatters light from the central star, creating an effect similar to fog.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

More impressively, Melton manages to exhale a puff of smoke so thick that cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck can still see it through the set’s fog.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

She also experienced very low energy, hair loss, severe dizziness, fainting spells from low blood sugar and brain fog.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Charlie Paddock, 27, from south London, also said she "nearly fainted twice and the hot flushes were unreal", while Jess Allingham, 26, said she was "absolutely exhausted, more than normal", and had "total brain fog".

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

“Oh, no,” Minna said, laughing, the sadness from before vanished like an early-morning fog.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

The skyline’s angular visage melted away, as mists and fogs and silvery showers softened edge by edge.

From Seattle Times Sep. 28, 2023

In the six decades since, fogs of time closed in on the Villa Weil.

From New York Times Dec. 23, 2022

There is an iconic scene in "Jurassic Park" when a velociraptor's breath fogs up a window as it searches for its prey.

From Salon May 29, 2022

“It fogs up my glasses in cold weather,” he says.

From Washington Post Jan. 21, 2022

He felt himself surrounded by dense, overwhelming fogs of possibilities in which he could perceive no glimmer of light.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Streetcars delivered residents to their errands across the city, windows fogged with condensation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

One of the quiet tragedies of the potluck is that perfectly good food often remains trapped in its travel container — lids half removed, plastic corners fogged with condensation.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2026

Photos on social media showed them slouched on plastic chairs, swathed in plastic bags fogged up by their breath.

From BBC Oct. 2, 2025

In the mornings before school, the windows of my parents’ house would be fogged with humidity, as if the swamp of South Florida were trying to press its way in.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2023

Olanna stared at the soldiers’ retreating backs and tried to calm her queasiness, to shrug off the foreboding that had fogged her mind for days.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“As for fogging, we drilled holes in the plastic at the side of the nose and that worked.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 2024

It was closed and the glass was fogging up with condensation.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2023

In older adults, such changes as loss of receptor cells in the ear and eye, fogging of the eye’s lens or loss of functioning in peripheral nerves, motion sickness may either increase or decrease.

From Scientific American May 26, 2023

Wearing a mask comes with some discomfort, including hindering communication and fogging up glasses.

From New York Times Feb. 1, 2023

Only their breath fogging the air gave proof that they still lived.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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