overcast
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The effect also occurred at illumination levels similar to those found indoors or outside on an overcast day.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Skies are frequently overcast, and winters are cold, gray and gloomy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
On an overcast Wednesday morning in Salt Lake City this summer, four bicyclists gathered in an industrial area not far from the city’s airport before fanning out across town.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
The warmest the Three Lions have played in was 25C for the final group game against Panama, but that featured overcast skies.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
It was a hot, overcast morning, trees shimmering in the heat.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Three months earlier, Blankenship had told mine superintendents to "ignore" requests to build overcasts -- devices that are important for ventilating deadly gases from mines.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2010
Old flying boats venture out and up through pea-soup overcasts, often to rescue flyers from a sea so cold that few men have survived after floating in it for more than 30 minutes.
From Time Magazine Archive
When we first called she had just passed her fourth birthday, and now overcasts from three to four pairs of pants every day.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
Bonaventure seemed scarce less tempest-tossed than he; and all about the school the distress spread as wintry gray overcasts a sky.
From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable
And should the river of our happy laughter Flow 'neath a sky no cloud yet overcasts, We will not fear the shadows coming after, But make the most of sunshine while it lasts.
From Yule-Tide in Many Lands by L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman
John Goodman can do the oaky solidity, but perhaps might be overcasting.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
She saw, however, the concern overcasting the features of all of them—except Mathilde—and she now mastered herself entirely, though the tremor remained, very deep down within her.
From Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus
Nearly all books should be sewed with some modern method of overcasting.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
The teacher should demonstrate the method of overcasting and explain its use.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools by Ontario. Ministry of Education
The modern overcasting stitch resembles in principle the old-fashioned whipstitching, but differs radically in actual performance.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
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"Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe
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