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In late May, China’s State Council signaled a crackdown on cryptocurrency mining, causing bitcoin’s price to plummet by 30% and casting a pall across the entire industry, which collectively lost over $1 trillion in value.

I can think of few events which cast a greater pall over the Senate than the untimely death of our beloved colleague, Lester Hunt.

Even without the pall of the horse’s failed drug test, you’re better off fading Medina Spirit in the Preakness Stakes.

While pandemic pall is visceral, climate change can feel far off, requiring effort to remain engaged, or at a minimum, to keep paying attention.

The battles in the late 1980s over controversial artwork exhibited by NEA-funded institutions — namely, photographs by Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe — cast a frustrating pall over government support that dogs the issue to this day.

It cast this pall over the movie, which was one of my favorites of last year.

Dad was lying on his bed in his underwear and T-shirt smoking a Pall Mall.

He took a cigarette from a pack of Pall Malls on the bedside table.

There was literally a pall over the city when the Rangers won the first two games.

We may think it has to do with some moody pall over his administration right now.

The sudden pall of darkness in this strange house of mystery was just a tiny bit awesome.

The corpse was lying in a narrow coffin, upon a low bier, both of which were covered with a white pall.

Chains creaked, hinges groaned, and the great black pall above him began gradually to rise.

Next the artist changed to the string of pity, and thoughts of the worlds sorrows came over him like a pall.

Accustomed as he was to open appreciation by the sex, it never seemed to pall on him.