shroud
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The situation leaves a shroud of uncertainty over the play-offs before the second leg.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
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
“We expect that the shroud of uncertainty created by the conflict will weigh on the PMI this month.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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
As Lev stepped aside, I reached out to tuck the arm back into the shroud and froze.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
The production design by Tamara Deverell is superb as are the costumes by Kate Hawley, who shrouds Goth in dramatic chiffon layers and dresses laced to highlight her vertebrae.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Rescuers could not find enough funeral shrouds for all the bodies.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
Behind loomed up the Buck Hill; and out of it, through stray shrouds of mist, shone many round windows, yellow and red.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
From afar, the Sagrada Família, shrouded in mist, appears otherworldly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The couple's nuptials were shrouded in secrecy despite the event shutting down a part of New York City - the most populous city in the US.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The event remains shrouded in mystery, as no images have been released.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
There’s something very powerful there: She’s demystifying a process that can still be shrouded in unnecessary secrecy, and making a choice many women have at least considered.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
By the time Ekon returned to the Temple of Lkossa, dawn had shrouded it in mist.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Then Levi’s went further, shrouding real-life signs at stores across the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
As a blue tarp was pulled off it, audience members could hear a snapping noise as the bronze figure it was shrouding suddenly appeared to drop in height.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
She wrote that the government seemed to be concealing key information from the court and shrouding data in this studiously ambiguous language.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025
Even then, Reagan was helped greatly by the restive climate stemming from the Watts riots, widespread campus unrest and voter fatigue shrouding the incumbent, Jerry Brown’s father, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
They passed some boys swimming and clowning in the water, shrouding their words in laughter.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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