as in to obscure
to make dark, dim, or indistinct
the view from the mountain's summit is often bedimmed by haze
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There is also no record of its business name on a database of online companies and its website is registered to a private domain in Holland, obscuring its true origin.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025 -
Bouchard is the owner of a leisurely pace of play and that can sometimes obscure his contributions to winning games.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Created by Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim and Michael S. Schmidt, Zero Day is a gripping, thought-provoking and all-too-timely six-part limited series about how a strategic cyberattack can affect our faith in national security, ignite a wide array of conspiracies and blur the perception of facts.—
Jeff Conway,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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Drawn out over an almost one month period after the initial attack, the lines between fact and fiction blur pretty fast in Zero Day, just like in our echo chamber America.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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The clouds are still in sunlight while the ground is darkening after the Sun sets.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
12 Feb. 2025
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The ice sheet has thinned and darkened since the early 1990’s, especially around its edges….—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Feb. 2025
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The hot inflation report dimmed hopes of more interest rate cuts this year by the U.S. Federal Reserve.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2025
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And to help watchmakers capitalize on that trend, suppliers have been developing some particularly showy materials and techniques, including a method to apply color without dimming the tiny gem particles called nanodiamonds, along with processes to crystallize precious metals.—
Anders Modig Davin,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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By the end of January, the Palisades and Eaton fires had collectively burned more than 37,000 acres of land, blackened more than 1,500 structures, and claimed 29 lives, according to the New York Times.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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Historians will see the fires that blackened much of Los Angeles this year as one of the state’s most significant events and how recovery is managed, or mismanaged, will be legend.—
Dan Walters,
The Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2025
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The inauguration of President Donald Trump has further clouded the picture: the administration ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the CDC, to cease all public communications through at least the end of the month.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2025
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Lammy shed his inhibitions—and found a national platform, in the media—while his future in the Party clouded over.—
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Harris recommends immediately misting your face with a long-wearing setting spray after foundation and concealer application, then blending.—
Lauren Valenti,
Vogue,
20 Feb. 2025
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In other words, this is just the thing to mist away the winter blues.—
Jenny Berg,
Allure,
20 Feb. 2025
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But instead of sounding the alarm, defendants went out of their way to becloud the emerging scientific consensus.—
Edward Fitzpatrick,
BostonGlobe.com,
7 Aug. 2019
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His flacks and surrogates hand out scraps of information grudgingly, infrequently, and beclouded by fragrant eructations of doublespeak.—
Charles Seife,
Slate Magazine,
1 Mar. 2017
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“Bedim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedim. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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