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• Seven horse deaths cast a pall over the race the entire week.
  — C.l. Brown, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2023
• The fall in Chinese chip stocks may cast a pall over the sector globally.
  — Ryan Vlastelica, Bloomberg.com, 10 Oct. 2022
• And the Olympics only happen once every four years; the empty stands in Tokyo have cast a pall on these games.
  — Sean Gregory/tokyo, Time, 26 July 2021
• The entertainment business may not have turned the page on the labor strife that cast a pall over 2022.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
• Seeing their leading rusher get carted off the field could have cast a pall over the team for weeks.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• But news that six people were killed in a parade at Highland Park, Illinois, cast a pall over the event.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
• That cast a pall over my intense and growing affection for her.
  — Ron Winters, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
• Several mall shootings and flash mob robbery sprees cast a pall on Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2021
• The Nazi acts cast a pall over the practice of revoking citizenship.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• And those cast a pall on the gender clinic as calls to end the surgeries overwhelmed its social media channels.
  — Kate Sosin, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
• Fair—and it’s understandably cast a pall over the industry.
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
• The deaths linked to the antibody cast a pall over recent trial results largely seen as hopeful.
  — Bycharles Piller, science.org, 21 Dec. 2022
• All of this has cast a pall on soccer's greatest celebration of itself.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 17 Nov. 2022
• Not surprisingly, that trend has cast a pall over single-members LLCs.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 2 July 2023
• Lisa O’Connor, the vice president of the church’s board, said she was deeply disappointed by the tone of the board’s discussion, which cast a pall over this year’s festivities.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
• But his legal problems, which have become a financial drag on his campaign war chest, are expected to cast a pall over the event.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023
• The impact is perhaps most visible in the real estate market, where the run-up in mortgage rates has cast a pall over homebuying.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023
• The tone is a marked shift from the last conference in May, when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and fears of economic catastrophe cast a pall on the week-long conference.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• The war in Gaza has cast a pall over the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a time of fasting and reflection, charity and community.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• The loss of the heart-and-soul player such as Patrick cast a pall on the first fully-padded practice of camp, robbing the Broncos of a player expected to thrive with the addition of quarterback Russell Wilson.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
• Yet safety concerns over amyloid-lowering medicines could cast a pall on such ambitions.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
• The Federal Reserve’s aggressive year-long fight against inflation has hit its first major roadblock with the collapse of two large banks that have cast a pall over the U.S. financial system.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• The film, which is set in a coastal Massachusetts town around Christmastime in 1964, masterfully captures how the mustiness of New England winters can seep into your bones and cast a pall over your mood.
  — Natalia Winkelman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
• But the allegations cast a pall over the show’s brilliantly bonkers final season, which concluded with a sweet finale Thursday and took its showbiz satire to dizzying new heights.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• The startling collapse of FTX Trading has cast a pall on the entire cryptocurrency sector, sowing fears that even that the world's biggest exchange for digital assets may not be safe.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2022
• The Federal Reserve’s aggressive yearlong fight against inflation has hit its first major roadblock with the collapse of two large banks that have cast a pall over the US financial system.
  — Abha Bhattarai, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• Senna’s death cast a pall over all racing that month, especially after the death of Roland Ratzenberger in San Marino qualifying the day before.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
• Danow was determined not to let the incident cast a pall over Pensacola’s Jewish community.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• That war continues to cast a pall over relations between China and India and spurred India to develop nuclear weapons.
  — Dan Altman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2021
• New listings in China are breaking records even as turbulent markets cast a pall over the global initial-public-offering business.
  — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 13 June 2022

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024