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haze

[heyz] / heɪz /


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Cregger wrote Weapons not to capitalize on that modest triumph, but in a haze of grief over the sudden death of Moore, who fell off a balcony in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

The haze can be smelled even indoors in the city of about 700,000 people.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

According to Greenpeace estimates using government data, some 35 million people in Indonesia are exposed to toxic haze.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

Cloaked in toxic haze that can burn years off a person's lifespan, volunteers have been digging ponds, canals and borewells through bone-dry peat in a desperate attempt to keep their hoses tapped.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

She began paddling anyhow, trying to make out the island through the haze of light blurring her vision.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Whether a planet's atmosphere contains hazes or other particles has a marked influence on global temperatures, incoming levels of starlight, and other factors that can hinder or foster biological activity, the researchers said.

From Science Daily Nov. 27, 2023

In near-infrared imaging, high-altitude hazes typically appear blurry, with enhanced brightness over the equatorial region.

From Science Daily Oct. 20, 2023

Those hazes then venture into the dayside, and are vaporized in the heat.

From Scientific American Oct. 20, 2023

The dark spot is likely he result of mixing hazes and ices.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2023

Before them, as they turned west, gentle slopes ran down into dim hazes far below.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Equally normal, as far as Perales was concerned, was a Detroit skyline hazed by the fume-spewing Marathon petroleum refinery.

From Scientific American Sep. 22, 2023

“Willingness has nothing to do with being hazed, you can be willing and be hazed,” said the father.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2021

The wolf was part of the Hoodoo pack that was hazed away from Nutrioso in December, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.

From Washington Times Mar. 18, 2021

Personally, I have never experienced hazing, nor have I heard of another female who has been hazed at WSU.

From Seattle Times Aug. 7, 2020

The air around Nailer was hazed with the black work of shoreline smelters, but out there, beyond the smoke, he could see sails.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

“I saw it as affectionate hazing and acceptance into the group.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

But Mr. Warsh knows this hazing is what he signed up for.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 20, 2026

But the objects of his hazing are publicly unfazed.

From Salon Mar. 19, 2026

We were then, indeed, challenged and tested, with a slew of activities that added up to little more than a light hazing to bond us.

From Slate Apr. 27, 2025

After the execution, it may have been the reason his secondary school teacher made sure he had food, put a stop to the hazing, and assigned him to an easy job on the pig farm.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden




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