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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
• Danow was determined not to let the incident cast a pall over Pensacola’s Jewish community.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• 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
• The accident cast a pall over the exercise and both Austin and Marles expressed that their thoughts are with the families of the four service members and noted the risks military personnel take even when conducting training.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• Charles River began harvesting the crabs’ blood here last month after a series of lawsuits and bad publicity cast a pall over similar work in South Carolina.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022

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