befogging

present participle of befog
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for befogging
Verb
  • CarShield has received positive comments for its breadth of coverage and quick response times, although some policyholders have complained about claim denials, fine-print surprises and confusing sales practices.
    Brian Sloan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The merger will divide Elon, confusing prospective and current students.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, this past weekend, reports emerged that two American military cargo jets deported people to Africa on flights that appear to have had their transponders turned off, preventing tracking by obscuring their locations from public flight databases and other nearby aircraft.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Differential privacy introduces controlled noise or randomness to datasets, obscuring individual details while maintaining collective patterns.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In May, Kennedy vowed to find what caused autism by September, baffling scientists who near-unanimously believe there is no one cause of the condition.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This is stuttering, crashing and other issues, even on high-end hardware way above recommended specs, which is baffling some.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Towards the middle of the month, Venus will highlight friendships and social circles, blurring the line between platonic and romantic — a crush could suddenly feel more significant.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Heavy fuel oil also produces black carbon, a kind of soot that can settle on the ice and accelerate melt by darkening the surface, meaning more of the sun’s energy is absorbed.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Other Mommy is described as a supernatural trip into the darkening world of a young girl as her family, and their home, are haunted by a sinister entity that is determined to take up residence inside her.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The observations detected a puzzling event as the planet transitioned from a steady accretion rate in April and May to a burst of growth between June and August.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • These include one in which Arthur sports a full beard, a puzzling image given that Arthur has only a mustache.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And aren’t our real-life romantic complications bewildering enough?
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Its ginormous investments in higher-value, tech-heavy sectors from smartphones to autos to semiconductors to biotechnology are disrupting the global landscape at bewildering speed.
    William Pesek, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Tutu Atwell’s role is perplexing Every fan base has some trademark bits.
    Nate Atkins, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Taylor is accustomed to playing forceful characters who have perplexing emotions about motherhood, and in A Thousand and One, Taylor earned her stripes as a performer and acclaim.
    Essence, Essence, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Befogging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/befogging. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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