cloud over

Example Sentences

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The battle to acquire the fabled Hollywood studio has cast another cloud over an industry still recovering from the dual shocks of the pandemic and the writers and actors union strikes three years later.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Consumer spending held up a bit better in 2025 than you might have thought it would given all these clouds over the economy,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

A high pressure system lingering off California is helping to push any possible storms north toward the Pacific Northwest and Canada, leaving little to interfere with the tenacious clouds over Central California.

From Los Angeles Times

He wrote to the SEC's college of bishops, saying: "Anne Dyer I'm sure will always have a cloud over her unless it's decided one way or another whether she behaved properly or improperly."

From BBC

Investors will be wrestling with the strategic and financial implications of the acquisition, and those issues could create a cloud over Netflix stock, which trades under the ticker NFLX.

From Barron's