cloak
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The cloak can conceal objects with a wide variety of shapes, regardless of the direction from which heat approaches.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Although the current cloak represents a major advance, the researchers want to develop more sophisticated versions capable of performing additional functions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
And regardless of the metaphorical or philosophical cloak it may eventually wrap itself in, the show’s main function is to bridge one chapter of this franchise to the next.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
He has also claimed he was illegally removed from Libya to stand trial in the United States after "a cloak and dagger operation conducted in the dead of night".
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Why didn’t twenty-six armed soldiers, under cloak of darkness, charge two civilians hiding in a barn?
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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The reality competition show “The Traitors” is transforming into a sprawling entertainment franchise, with an official board game, signature hooded cloaks, and live immersive experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Elsewhere on the front page, two contestants from this season of the Celebrity Traitors, Maya Jama and Richard E Grant, are pictured scheming in their iconic green cloaks.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Throughout the holy city, Iranian flags can be seen printed on white pilgrims' garments, cloaks, bags and buses.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
Here, the evildoers receive sumptuous cloaks along with their metaphorical daggers.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026
Like snow, black and gray ash cloaks us.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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It’s cloaked language, but a nod to NIMBYs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Spacious, chilly and cloaked in an earthy scent, they hold hundreds of oak barrels and several towering steel tanks full of maturing wine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Whatever happens will be cloaked in lies — and followed by gaslighting.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Ms. Winger has always been a film actor of luminous transparency; her performance here, by contrast, feels cloaked in artifice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
This was exactly what no one would have expected, and of course villains were not announced with hisses or soliloquies, they did not come cloaked in black, with ugly expressions.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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That amount was the subject of a Senate investigation into whether Black had intentionally overpaid Epstein, cloaking money paid for personal reasons in the guise of financial services.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
I’m including the comments in full because of how out of character they were for a Fed chair best known for cloaking his future decisions:
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
And don’t be surprised if that picture is cloaking something behind its frame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
This could allow the development of bioinspired optical materials with possible applications ranging from invisible cloaking devices to coatings to more efficiently harvest solar energy, said Tak-Sing Wong, professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
It was then that Zeitoun realized that there was a sound, a heavy mechanical drone, cloaking the air around them.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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