befogs

present tense third-person singular of befog
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Verb
  • But the state’s message confuses parents, especially the poor and underserved, Anzalone said.
    Arthur Allen, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • And yet, even though not having children is becoming more widely accepted and understood in our society, there’s something about a woman who has never been married that still confuses and scares people.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For the next few minutes, the tree obscures at least one of the men.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Including these deaths is important, experts told me, because leaving them out obscures the true cost of war.
    Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Take the quiz here … DUGOUT SECRETS – Mysterious wooden canoe found after Hurricane Ian still baffles experts three years later.
    , FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • One case that still baffles is the macabre story of Virginia McCullough, who killed her parents for their money – and then lived with their bodies for four years.
    KC Baker, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • For a garden that blurs the lines between traditional and modern, combine a clean hardscape with aged materials and spilling plants.
    Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Civil liberties groups and university associations have since argued that the order blurs the line between national security vetting and political censorship.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Government shutdown clouds economic outlook The vote to cut interest rates by a quarter point was not unanimous.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Remove pressure to perform and find flow Cortisol clouds judgment and kills creativity.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Today, as a government shutdown darkens our national museums and the National Endowment for the Humanities is gutted, the danger is no longer a matter of rhetoric but of radical, systemic action.
    Andrew Weinstein, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The tree produces an annual fall harvest of walnuts, enclosed in a green husk that darkens when ripe.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Nandi is experiencing severe insomnia, tremors and psychosis, and her quickly deteriorating condition bewilders the emergency room staff.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The designs were puckish and gender-bending, evoking both awe and repulsion—the sort of clothing that titillates lovers of conceptual fashion and bewilders the uninitiated.
    Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Local students tend to know about the province’s nationalistic perspective, due to their high school curriculum, but this deliberately (and understandably) obfuscates the larger Canadian picture to try to foster a firmer attachment to Quebec’s language and culture.
    Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes, Death in the Family seems to be saying that our attempt to assign deeper meanings to acts of violence obfuscates how mean or petty human nature can be.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Befogs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/befogs. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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