1
as in to obscure
to make dark, dim, or indistinct
the diner's dark interior, clouded with smoke and grease
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2
as in to confuse
to make (something) unclear to the understanding
cloud the issue with obscure statistics
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Recent Examples of cloud
Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
The image, taken while the ISS was orbiting over South Asia, is a beautiful example of cloud formation in action.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Liza Esquibias, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Sesame Street's mission from its 1969 inception was to rely exclusively on public funding to assure parents that corporate interests wouldn't cloud its educational and empowering message to children.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Noun
After a foggy and overcast start to Christmas morning, the clouds dispersed, allowing the sun to come through.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
The image, taken while the ISS was orbiting over South Asia, is a beautiful example of cloud formation in action.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
From my own personal trauma and experiences hearing false accusations about him all the time clouded my judgement and got the best of me.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Sesame Street's mission from its 1969 inception was to rely exclusively on public funding to assure parents that corporate interests wouldn't cloud its educational and empowering message to children.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloud
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That monologue really did cast a pall over the entire episode.Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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Megalopolis pushes Coppola into unchecked futuristic, pseudo-classical narrative fabrications (evoking the Shakespearean pall cast by the death of Caesar’s wife).Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
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But it has been largely obscured by the perpetual closeness of statewide elections here, and the fact that Democrats have been winning them more often than losing them.Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
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This recent run has somewhat obscured the Penguins’ penchant for allowing the first goal.Rob Rossi, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
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But fans were confused as to why the flag was thrown.Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024
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Biden mixes up French president with deceased predecessor Things got messier in February when Biden confused current French President Emmanuel Macron with former French President François Mitterrand — who died in 1996.Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Dec. 2024
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Central Florida had a dense fog advisory that lifted around 8 a.m. Cloudy skies are expected to be mostly throughout the area, according to NWS Melbourne.Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
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In east-central Florida, the NWS said there may be widespread dense fog advisory through to 10 a.m. Friday.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Lead with Empathy and Flexibility Remote work blurs the lines between professional and personal life.Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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For Shamet, the journey back has blurred the timelines.Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
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But instead of sounding the alarm, defendants went out of their way to becloud the emerging scientific consensus.Edward Fitzpatrick, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
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His flacks and surrogates hand out scraps of information grudgingly, infrequently, and beclouded by fragrant eructations of doublespeak.Charles Seife, Slate Magazine, 1 Mar. 2017
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This appearance on Potomac only further highlighted his sketchy business practices, with his financial mismanagement casting a long shadow over his future endeavors.Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 Dec. 2024
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Sadler said a masked man had appeared out of the shadows.Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Here’s a symbolic gesture that deeply touched me, a heartening drama on a darkening stage: the wooden Nativity scene unveiled at the Vatican earlier this month, created by Palestinian artists from Dar al-Kalima University, in Bethlehem.Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
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Country Life Last Leaves As the flowers and the ferns put themselves to bed, shedding petals, drying and darkening, folding up, one garden plant stays longer than all the rest: kale.Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Cloud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloud. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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