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blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device
bushes blotted out the shed from our view
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In private, though, his bitterness over the commission dispute was starting to blot out his faith in Seal Team Six.
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Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
Tennesseans were able to nerd out Monday afternoon as astronomy, cosmology, meteorology and a little theology collided in the heavens over North America, casting a black shadow that, in some places, blotted out the midday sun.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 8 Apr. 2024
California 5 dead, more than 1,100 structures destroyed as firestorm besieges L.A. County
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Within three hours, black smoke billowing down from the hills blotted out the sun as locals fled, streets jammed with cars, and anxiety turned to flat-out panic.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Radioactive fallout and nuclear winter, in which dust and smoke blot out the sun, would mean the extinction of most life on Earth.
—Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
Tennesseans were able to nerd out Monday afternoon as astronomy, cosmology, meteorology and a little theology collided in the heavens over North America, casting a black shadow that, in some places, blotted out the midday sun.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 8 Apr. 2024
California 5 dead, more than 1,100 structures destroyed as firestorm besieges L.A. County
16 minutes ago
Within three hours, black smoke billowing down from the hills blotted out the sun as locals fled, streets jammed with cars, and anxiety turned to flat-out panic.
—Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Radioactive fallout and nuclear winter, in which dust and smoke blot out the sun, would mean the extinction of most life on Earth.
—Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Blot out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blot%20out. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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