mist
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With help from Berkeley undergraduates, Vazquez traveled throughout the region, setting up mist nets over streams, ponds and rivers at night.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
I’m standing in the produce aisle of my neighborhood supermarket, between the fresh vegetables receiving their bi-hourly overhead mist and a long refrigerated wall of salad kits.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
“We call it a beauty mist, but it’s used Ayurvedically to cool down the body,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Nottingham Forest's home shirt is inspired by the mist that rolls in from the River Trent.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
With the mist coming up from the sea, everything on the path below had disappeared.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
She reaches for her portable fan which mists the air, as the air conditioning gets going.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Recent discoveries about similar art-filled caves in France suggest that our ancestors were creating more than murals and pointillism beneath the primordial mists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
The victories won by gladiatrixes like Achillia, meanwhile, are all but lost to the mists of ages.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
That’s in part thanks to companies riding a wave of greater interest and offering more formulations and types of packaging, such as body mists and travel sizes, that are often cheaper.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
She pictured him riding through the morning mists, his golden armor bright in the light of the rising sun.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Diane Kostka planted a sign at each checkpoint for her husband and son and misted them with a spray bottle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2025
Settled in a working-class Los Angeles neighborhood, invalid parent and rebellious child clash: Anne “never so much as misted an eye when Louisa could see,” Choi writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
That means not throwing them straight into the produce drawer, and instead storing them in a misted, sealed bag.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 23, 2024
MAUZÉ-SUR-LE-MIGNON, France — Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying guns, the gendarmes appear suddenly in the middle of farm fields misted by morning rain.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
Mel took a spray bottle and misted the bee ball.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
Lineage must operate an odor-neutralizing misting system around the warehouse and any openings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Sweating and misting work in the same way, which is also why it's comfortable and cooler to be near a fountain or open body of water," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
New York has designated hundreds of public buildings as cooling centers, extended public swimming pool hours, dispatched volunteers to check on vulnerable residents, and opened cooling stations with misting fans and wet towels.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Other restoration efforts include the implementation of an anti-fire misting system beneath the cathedral’s roof and the recreation of the original cross.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Then a fog rolled in, misting me clean through—no pain, no thoughts, nothing but wet gray haze, like I’d been set adrift in a boat at dawn.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
