shroud
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If no one came to identify her, the team would prepare a clean white shroud, wash her according to Muslim custom and bury her nearby.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Bodies are wrapped in a shroud of biodegradable material such as silk or wool before being placed in a pressurised chamber with hot water and chemicals, speeding up decomposition.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
And she has gold lozenges painted all around the perimeter of her shroud, done tastefully, without obvious ostentation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Hidden beneath that thick acoustic engine shroud, the new high-output turbo assembly isn’t much to look at.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Its whiteness contrasted starkly with the black veil that framed her head like a shroud.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Dozens of relatives and mourners gathered at Nasser Hospital, where the bodies of some of those killed were laid out in white shrouds.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
Mystery still shrouds Zhang’s escape in July, following a late night court hearing in Mexico City when a judge unexpectedly granted him house arrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Rescuers could not find enough funeral shrouds for all the bodies.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
Yet despair shrouds Vuong’s characters, immigrants and other outsiders for whom the American Dream isn’t an inkling.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025
The trio of towering shrouds emerged from the pines.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
However, the future of the concept - and its star players - has been shrouded in uncertainty, with the 2026 season having ended early.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Our experiment provided the first empirical demonstration of a process that had previously been shrouded in controversy," Larrea summarizes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
Tesla’s launch Thursday night was shrouded in mystery and closed to media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
On Monday afternoon, low cloud shrouded the deep ravine, and the National Weather Service warned of more flooding with rain and thunderstorms in the forecast.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
She looked out the window, her figure shrouded in a gauze curtain of cold white light.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
The overarching question shrouding the film is not, “Did they do it?” but rather, “So what if they did?”
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Toiling around the clock, haggard Indonesian firefighters on Borneo island cannot keep up with the blazes devouring landscapes and shrouding communities in a cloying haze.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
TORONTO—Hundreds of out-of-control wildfires are burning in Canada, shrouding skies there and the U.S. in an eerie yellow-gray haze and forcing the evacuation of dozens of communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
And that patience was tested from the off on Thursday with low-lying cloud and fog shrouding the course.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Only Joshua took any enjoyment from the rabbinical complexity shrouding his recent papers.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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