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Results from computer memory stocks Sandisk and Western Digital weren’t quite good enough, casting a pall over the broader AI and tech stock complex this morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The Dodgers had opened Pandora’s box, and out would fly a lockout, a pall of smoke over their games, and a plague of locusts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Vietnam, inner-city riots, and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. had cast a pall over the Day-Glo optimism of the Love Generation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

That cast a pall over the cybersecurity sector: Palo Alto and CrowdStrike fell 3.2% and 3.9%, respectively.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

There was a pall in the house because Akira had hardly moved all day, except to wobble his head and groan softly.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

The immediate damage is clear to see, with heavy palls of smoke hanging over the blackened and charred landscape, but a conservation expert said the long-term damage could take hundreds of years to repair.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

But Malloy’s attempt to cross-reference the stand-alone 30-minute stories with psychological and literal echoes palls.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2024

But the inconvenience of shopping in tropical heat palls compared with farmers afraid their harvests will be scant due to a lack of fertilizer.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

“We had palls of smoke across our three major cities.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021

Chicago seemed an unreal city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal wreathed in palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into the dank prairie.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright