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cloud

[klaud] / klaʊd /






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However, thick smoke, persistent cloud cover, and dense tree canopies can interfere with those measurements.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

In a nearly 1,500-word X post after the jury verdict Friday, Ackman said, “While five years is a very long time to live under a reputational cloud, justice was finally served.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

As they scatter, regroup and break off again, the work never stops, even when sources don’t want to trust them, the ground under their feet keeps shifting and the cloud over their homeland gets darker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Microsoft sells applications and cloud services, giving it opportunities to design infrastructure around work its customers already perform.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

You step outside right as your bus pulls away, leaving a black cloud suspended in the air.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Unlike visible-light imaging, microwave measurements can penetrate cloud cover, making it possible to monitor the Arctic consistently even when storms or persistent clouds obscure the surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

There’s a certain reset available in the presence of trees, birds and clouds.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

“You have the AI names, specifically the clouds, really holding in there because they are very rate-agnostic,” he told MarketWatch in a phone interview on Wednesday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Still, on day one, play was halted at 15:23 local time after clouds built.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

After a while the clouds lifted, and out popped a full moon with a big smiling face.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

There is evidence, more mixed, that business optimism has also perked up in recent months, possibly because of earlier falls in energy prices, though this has been clouded by anticipation of possible tax rises.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

But for U.S. consumers and the Federal Reserve, it’s one more problem in an inflation picture already clouded by rising oil prices.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026

The season of beer and lederhosen has been clouded by allegations Munich is running a cartel that even a prince can’t crack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will step up efforts to isolate Iran economically as he hosts G20 counterparts this week, a US official said Thursday, in a gathering clouded by war and trade tensions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

His eyes were clouded, his leg lame, his ruined hand permanently curled as if still clenched around a spade, but he was alive.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

But inside the brain trusts of Silicon Valley, billions of investor dollars and years of tortured rationalist arguments are clouding a similar argument about artificial intelligence.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

Increasing tensions in the Persian Gulf are clouding prospects for a recovery in regional LNG exports, adding to concerns over Europe’s gas supply as storage levels trail seasonal norms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

He added: "There are people that are very anti-grouse shooting. Fair enough, that's your choice. But that's clouding their view about muirburn because they're saying because grouse shooters do it, it must be bad."

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Or am I just so taken with this show, a series I myself came to late, that my enthusiasm is clouding my judgment?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

All their endless sorrows, clouding together in one place.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill


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