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[fog, fawg] / fɒg, fɔg /




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Monday is likely to be a fairly grey day along with patchy rain and hill fog but brighter spells should develop later in the day for some areas.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

If brain fog and anxiety are concerns, simply regulating nutritional intake can solve for that, no matter what your cortisol tests say.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

Pilots navigating the island also face heavy turbulence, low-lying sea fog, sudden microclimates and strong updrafts and downdrafts that can push a small aircraft off course.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Common brain-related symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, memory problems, and low mood.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The snow stopped before midnight, then sea fog crept in and Bartok had trouble making a trail.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

A fountain on the back patio roars, fogs and mists at patrons.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

For three solid, unrelieved weeks, the pileup of cyclonic storms has obscured the Northern California coastlines with dense drifting fogs and white mist thrown off huge waves.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2023

With so much of the “sanitarium belt” spread across hot, bright Southern California, why, then, open one next to the ocean, with its damp, lung-swaddling fogs?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

There is an iconic scene in "Jurassic Park" when a velociraptor's breath fogs up a window as it searches for its prey.

From Salon ● May 29, 2022

The fogs slowly gathered together and steamed up into a huge umbrella of cloud: it must have been a mile high.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Streetcars delivered residents to their errands across the city, windows fogged with condensation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

One of the quiet tragedies of the potluck is that perfectly good food often remains trapped in its travel container — lids half removed, plastic corners fogged with condensation.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026

Photos on social media showed them slouched on plastic chairs, swathed in plastic bags fogged up by their breath.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

“We usually just look away from each other and Scott distracts himself by drawing Pokémon in the fogged glass,” she writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

The moment the space suit was closed, her faceplate fogged up.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Less than two years in, she started having daily asthma attacks, as well as headaches, dizziness, and rashes while her walls were sweating and windows were fogging up because of the humidity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

"Instead of soil, we pack these containers with a specialized coco-peat substrate derived entirely from coconut husk. We then integrate a highly precise drip-irrigation and fogging system to control micro-climates."

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

CDC officials are working with state and local officials to do more real-world field testing, including experiments in which mosquitoes placed in cages outdoors are checked after an insecticide fogging truck passes by.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024

Bhamla and Challita say that similar methods of superpropulsion could one day help wearable devices such as smartwatches remove moisture or prevent droplets from fogging up glasses.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2023

They had cleaned up the mess after the virus had wiped out everyone else, and now they were busy fogging the rooms with insecticide, in the hope that it might somehow disperse the virus.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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