camouflage
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The young executive brings an unconventional style to the tech giant, turning up to its development conference in a thrift-store camouflage shirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
It was the Ruger .22-caliber rifle with a camouflage scope that Roebuck kept in the workshop behind his house.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The two brothers' coffins, draped in the Iran-backed group's yellow flag, portraits of them in camouflage fatigues fixed to the front, led the procession through the village battered by repeated conflict over nearly three years.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
This coating can act as a form of camouflage, making it harder for immune cells to recognize and destroy them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
Was it for some kind of military camouflage?
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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When Jack, patrolling alone in a heavy rain, sees Robert’s speeding van careen off a mountain road, he takes possession of the loot, camouflages the crash site and celebrates having become an instant millionaire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
I enter into my old neighborhood with a fluttering in my periphery where new construction or paint camouflages lines and angles and patches of scenery until the unmistakability of my childhood street reveals itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
They’re small, kidney-shaped, and come in color-coordinated shades, which camouflages them to near-invisibility.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
One nocturnal bird called a Tawny Frogmouth woke up from where it usually camouflages as a rotting tree stump.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2024
The planet noises are so loud I can’t hear, so I slide closer, hoping my gray jumpsuit camouflages me enough that they won’t pay any attention to me.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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In the end, all that’s left is another thinly written woman in horror, camouflaged by tongue-in-cheek jokes and flimsy progressive ideas.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
Today, camouflaged National Guard troops patrol Uruapan with rifles nestled, or cruise the streets in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
In 1993 it denied inspectors access to camouflaged nuclear sites, leaving the world to guess whether it had separated plutonium for bombs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
On a tree trunk in Thailand's Khao Phra Thaeo Non-Hunting Area, a tiny male broad-headed bark spider rides on the abdomen of a camouflaged female, waiting for her to moult so he can mate.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
There was some kind of truth hidden in there, Reynie thought, but it was camouflaged with nonsense.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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"They were camouflaging, they were desperate to be social and wanted to fit in."
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
White walls would cede to green foliage, effectively camouflaging the facade—but also playing into the hands of critics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
“There’s one camouflaging over there,” she said, pointing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025
The flightless species comes in three camouflaging varieties, or morphs, that are inherited from one generation to the next.
From Science Magazine ● May 23, 2024
Ugwu knew that an army contractor had donated some corrugated iron for replacing the blown-off roof and that volunteers were camouflaging it with palm fronds.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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