befog
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After adding befog, we’ve guessed more than three letters for more than 96 percent of all puzzles we might face in Wordle, in four guesses.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2022
No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired the title to "The Greatest."
From Time Magazine Archive
He did not seek to befog a question by an extensive quotation of authorities.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885 by Various
In this camera no essential to good picture making is omitted, yet it has no unnecessary "contraptions" to annoy and befog the beginner.
From Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company
You managed to graduate, but only to befog what little hope then remained to me.
From I Conquered by Harold Titus
Overruling those just to appease your clearly befogged co-parent is a bad habit to get into right as you’re starting this journey.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022
As always with the royal family, details about its internal deliberations are elusive and befogged in speculation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2021
She wasn’t befogged, as their father had been.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019
The performance is the sum of all the subtle, wayward bits of life that Sellers invented, that keep audiences caring about this poor befogged man.
From Time Magazine Archive
When you shout Durham! the gloomy and befogged financial atmosphere becomes clear and there is a mad rush and scramble for her bonds.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and befogging the stars.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he knew why a cloud was thus effectually befogging his wits.
From Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy
But meantime— meantime… There is no doubt that when the frantic man realized his befogging ignorance, and found himself involved in this dreadful delay, the hotel clerk's apprehensions were, at least for wild moments, justified.
From The Iron Woman by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
But, as it chanced, Mr. O'Connor's elaborate mechanism for befogging his trail was entirely wasted, for the President, so far as could be learned, said not a thing on the subject to anybody.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
Perhaps they are approaching this part of the earth like comet that carries its tail before it, and I am already enveloped in a disturbing, befogging nebulosity.
From A Kentucky Cardinal by James Lane Allen
