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But that still left space for Kim to expand the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile program under a shroud of secrecy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Like a giant black shroud, it hung over the Moscow skyline.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

They spin a variety of amazing webs, from the typical orb web, with its hub-and-spoke pattern, to funnel-like tube webs and sheet webs that can drape over an entire landscape like a shroud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

They lifted Grandfather’s shroud by the top and the bottom and prepared to fling it into the open grave.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

"Egypt and Rome, the Faces of Fayum", opening Wednesday at Rome's Ara Pacis museum, also includes mummies, masks, shrouds, jewellery, marble busts and statuary.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

The upgrade includes tarted up air-inlet shrouds on the side and louvered panels in the front wings, notionally to help evacuate air pressure at high speed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

To minimize the psychological distress of the families during the burial process, Pourzahedian said he used cotton and paper to reconstruct the physical form of the victims within the shrouds.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

They are very graphic and show bodies lined up in the courtyard of a mosque, covered with shrouds and blankets.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024

“It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Some of her duties were reportedly absorbed by Robert Port, a veteran documentary filmmaker with no PR experience whose own hiring was shrouded in secrecy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

The book was shrouded in suspicion and withdrawn from the shortlist for France's top book prize, the Goncourt, after tests with AI detector Pangram indicated a 100-percent probability it contained computer-generated text.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

For Maresca and Manchester City's players, shrouded in uncertainty and under threat of future Premier League punishment, Anfield – always a cauldron when they visit – will present the ultimate mental, physical and footballing examination.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

U.S. states’ methods for obtaining the drugs used in carrying out executions are shrouded in secrecy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

But Ruth May was shrouded in so many misty layers of mosquito netting I could barely make out any semblance of a dead child inside.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Among the many mysteries shrouding North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the secrecy around his mother stands out.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

When all was burned they quenched the flame with wine and gathered the bones into a golden urn, shrouding them in soft purple.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton