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But now, “we are under this pall of uncertainty with how our trading relationship is really going to evolve with our still-largest trading partner.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Dodgers had opened Pandora’s box, and out would fly a lockout, a pall of smoke over their games, and a plague of locusts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Toxic air has covered the San Gabriel Valley and beyond at times, as the fire continues to burn and the wind shifts the pall in different directions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

That cast a pall over the cybersecurity sector: Palo Alto and CrowdStrike fell 3.2% and 3.9%, respectively.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

Next day when the white pall still lay over the camp, my loneliness for Betsie became too much to bear.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The immediate damage is clear to see, with heavy palls of smoke hanging over the blackened and charred landscape, but a conservation expert said the long-term damage could take hundreds of years to repair.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

Especially notable are two chalice palls — or covers — about 7 inches square whose plant motifs are very bold in scale.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

But the inconvenience of shopping in tropical heat palls compared with farmers afraid their harvests will be scant due to a lack of fertilizer.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

“We had palls of smoke across our three major cities.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021

Chicago seemed an unreal city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal wreathed in palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into the dank prairie.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright