as in hazy
covered over by clouds
the dark, overcast sky made the whole day seem depressing
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as in to obscure
to make dark, dim, or indistinct
an impenetrable fog overcast our view of the harbor
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Recent Examples of overcast
David Peisner, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
The foggy, overcast weather imparted an eerie calm to the scene just days after Monday’s storm surge.
—Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2024
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
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Adjective
Image On an overcast Ghana day in mid-November, Taylor appeared on a video chat, sitting on the patio of his home in Saltpond, a small city on the country’s Atlantic coast, alongside his son and bandleader, Henry Taylor.
—David Peisner, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
The foggy, overcast weather imparted an eerie calm to the scene just days after Monday’s storm surge.
—Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overcast
Adjective
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Thin lines and hazy glowing colors make the towering, randomized geometric structures look like something from a French comic book.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
16 Mar. 2025
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Recall what the natural 2024 total solar eclipse looked like: a hazy white halo around a dark circle.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But all of this noise obscures the simple way to synthesize all of this: Less is better.—
Dylan Scott,
Vox,
14 Mar. 2025
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From Blue Ghost’s landing site in the Sea of Crises (close to the Sea of Tranquility, where Apollo 11 landed in 1969), totality — when Earth will completely obscure the sun as seen from the moon — will start at 1:18 a.m.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Tall palm trees and bamboo and beyond them high misty mountains covered with vegetation of a deep monsoon green.—
Amitava Kumar,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
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Whether in the misty forests of Costa Rica, the savannas of Kenya, or the rugged Highlands of Scotland, this new model of travel offers more than a vacation.—
Ashlee Marie Preston,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Filters have a more dramatic effect on images than Film Sims, with options that include a miniature effect that blurs part of the scene to simulate a photograph of a diorama, a low-fi toy camera filter, high and low-key exposure looks, and others.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
12 Mar. 2025
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From music tailored to your mood to movies created by AI, the line between human and machine creativity is blurring.—
Andrey Fadeev,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Pigments darken the lashes, while oils and waxes help thicken them and give your lashes a boost of volume.—
Caroline C. Boyle,
USA TODAY,
14 Mar. 2025
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Apparently, the concert’s pyrotechnics, located directly underneath the banners, literally darkened the legacy of the team in a way the stories of Michael Jordan’s gambling and Dennis Rodman’s smelliness never could.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Despite their polite and understated personalities, the Japanese can’t dim their enthusiasm for baseball’s brightest star.—
Jay Paris,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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An arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt: A 32-year-old man from Bolingbrook was arrested on charges of failure to dim headlights and driving under the influence of alcohol at 11:14 p.m. March 1 in the 1500 block of West Ogden Avenue.—
Steve Metsch,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Another whale appeared, misting the air with its breath.—
Chloe Berge,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Mar. 2025
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To form the bun, Mikey’s stylist then used a tail comb to part her hair, before finally sculpting the hair into a ribbon-like updo by twisting and shaping it while misting the Bumble and Bumble Spray de Mode Flexible Hold Spray.—
Kleigh Balugo,
StyleCaster,
3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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However, their long-term future is clouded with doubt.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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Honda’s move to make the carmaker its subsidiary and push for deeper staff cuts at Nissan further clouded the fate of the deal, according to the report.—
Jenni Reid,Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Overcast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overcast. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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