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verb

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Recent Examples of overcast
Adjective
Smoke from a wildfire in New Jersey had turned the overcast sky a dirty brown. Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025 On an overcast afternoon last week, people jogged and rode bikes down what had once been called the Great Highway. Janie Har, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
Short term reversals shouldn’t overcast longer term progress, Reed added. Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2024 The past year has seen an existential mood overcast the rap world as its commercial dominance appears to be on its last leg. Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2023 See All Example Sentences for overcast
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overcast
Adjective
  • Lemon Chiffon and Sundew, Classic Yellow and Armagnac—all evoke dusty landscapes and hazy sunlight.
    Tim Nelson, Architectural Digest, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Frosted glass has an opaque, hazy finish that provides privacy while still allowing in light.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But this becomes nearly impossible when a dense medium obscures the object.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The other names on the list were obscured, leading to widespread fan speculation about his future opponents.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Amelia Gray Hamlin Amelia Gray Hamlin partnered her black lace get-up with a sinister makeup look involving misty gray shadow.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The low-hanging clouds reached their misty tendrils toward us, dousing us in a cool bath of rain.
    Stefanie Waldek, AFAR Media, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Loren insists that less prominent creators looking to earn more money by blurring the line between professional and personal could ultimately put them at risk, marking a stark warning for parents who may have children considering the side hustle.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Together, O’Neill and Alicia navigate a rabbit hole of deranged folk singers, psychotic cops, boxing promoters, line dancing enthusiasts, and worst of all, podcasters, the truth blurs, bodies stack, and the nature of their search comes into question.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Over the weekend, around 16,000 people paid their respects to the designer at his funeral chamber at the Armani Teatro designed by Tadao Ando, filled with white flowers and paper lanterns on the floor in a diagonal grid formation dimly lit up the darkened venue.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When the sky darkens, her stomach clenches.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • With an athlete’s discipline, Blass refused to let his pitching darken his mood at home.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • My feelings about Euphoria are fairly clouded now by all the drama surrounding the production.
    James Factora, Them., 26 Sep. 2025
  • Post-pandemic immigration surges, followed by stricter enforcement, distorted many traditional labor-market signals and clouded real-time interpretation of headline statistics.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The outlook on holiday 2025 at retail is dimming.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
  • As the outlook for crude prices dims, the ability of these funds — and the small group of people who control them — to project power and influence across the world looks undiminished.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Overcast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overcast. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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