shroud
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Now, during high marmot season between May and July, blue, green and beige tarps shroud most cars at Mineral King, which sits below jagged Sierra Nevada peaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
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
A host shows us to our table—a booth toward the back, partially hidden by velvet curtains that can be undone to shroud the space entirely.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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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
The news agency also reported seeing bodies wrapped in white shrouds at Nasser hospital.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
And the great shrouds of music came out of the lab at any time of the day or night.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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“Their word is shrouded in secrecy and legal jargon in attempts to obfuscate and obscure what really happened.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
But the ancient world in which early eukaryotes evolved remains shrouded in mystery.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
Tesla’s launch Thursday night was shrouded in mystery and closed to media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 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
They camped on an open heath, cold and barren, shrouded with mist drifting from the Marshes of Morva.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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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
Then Levi’s went further, shrouding real-life signs at stores across the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Later, I took a 20-minute drive to Al Sahab Park, a short distance outside Abha, crowded with people admiring the evening mist shrouding Jabal Soudah, the country’s highest peak at 9,892 feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2025
When the Dwarf had a small bright blaze going, the three companions drew close to it and sat together, shrouding the light with their hooded forms.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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