befoul
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At long last, the U.S. is thinking beyond the tailpipe to examine hidden ways that cars befoul the planet.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023
He has persevered through torrential downpours, droughts and, most vexingly, increasingly elaborate halftime shows that befoul his beloved turf.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2023
Cow pies befoul apple carts, a teddy bear and a man trying to save a young girl.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
The aftereffects of this campaign may befoul our civic life for some time to come.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 23, 2016
But then, Samir said that the ghosts would never risk stealing our breath because Rasseem was with us, and his breath could befoul the afterlife.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
And when drilling goes bad, it befouls the environment and the greater economy.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
For all the burlesque that befouls our politics, the quadrennial ritual on January 20 is when we are humbled by the reminder of our own solemn charge.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 20, 2021
Perhaps most distressing about SantaCon is its size and the way that it shuts down and befouls dozens of blocks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2013
Though not one of the major air pollutants itself, lead befouls most present-day antipollution devices.
From Time Magazine Archive
All outlay devoted to culture, to beauty, to invigoration has dried up; all that survives is what stimulates, what depraves and befouls; frivolities, substitutes and swindles.
From The New Society by Arthur Windham
But in 2026, nothing comparable exists for our befouled media landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
On another wall was a banner reading “Break The Curse” — an unofficial campaign slogan decrying the corruption and controversy that have befouled most District 14 councilmembers for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
My crime was only discovered after everybody returned from some planned activity I had skipped, fished out their baked potatoes and began choking on their befouled legumes.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 23, 2023
A bad apple might be icky and distasteful, but befouled meat caused a related, but totally distinct, sensation cluster of contamination, queasiness and defilement.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
“Do forgive me. The Grand Maester befouled himself in dying, and the stink was so abominable that I thought I might choke.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Netflix had been befouling the tape of late, falling 26.7 percent in the past three months and declining on 21 of the previous 29 trading days.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2024
In a 2019 commencement address, Mr. Adams complained that a neighbor’s dog kept befouling his yard — no matter how polite he was to the owner, no matter his standing as Brooklyn’s borough president.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2021
Well, for Moore, it’s a blueprint: one rich guy’s knack for befouling the neighborhood foretells another’s ability to mess up the land of the free.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2018
"And then there comes a threat" — Big Coal, enabling modern contrivances while befouling nature — "to their way of life. And they will have to defend it."
From US News ● Jan. 22, 2016
Despite his lead codpiece, the dust—undoubtedly—filtered in and at him, brought him daily, so long as he failed to emigrate, its little load of befouling filth.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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