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cloak

[klohk] / kloʊk /




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The invisibility offered a protective cloak, allowing his existential confessionals to develop free of the expectations placed upon Sage Elsesser, pro skateboarder.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

Like Maddie, she can easily cloak compulsions under the blanket of modern body positivity.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

That painting depicts Christ on the cross, with a painter standing beneath him dressed in a mauve-pink-and-brown cloak.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

That creates a cloak of consistency, because people expect interventions, but it does not necessarily mean VAR is being used as originally intended, for the real howlers.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

A rich scarlet cloak covered his back and fell past the saddle behind him.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

Throughout the holy city, Iranian flags can be seen printed on white pilgrims' garments, cloaks, bags and buses.

From Barron's May 25, 2026

Michael Jackson’s celebrity is so blinding, his music so compelling, that it cloaks him with an almost impenetrable shield from the truth: He was a stone cold pedophile.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

Here, the evildoers receive sumptuous cloaks along with their metaphorical daggers.

From Salon Jan. 28, 2026

When the last players got a chance to take down their cloaks, daggers and suspicions they had the opportunity to ask each other what they wanted to do if they won.

From BBC Jan. 24, 2026

The enchanted ceiling of the Great Hall was dark and scattered with stars, and below it the four long House tables were lined with disheveled students, some in traveling cloaks, others in dressing gowns.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

"We shouldn't just think dinosaurs are mammals cloaked in scales and feathers," Holtz said.

From Science Daily Feb. 27, 2026

And the cloaked man spoke and said: ‘He is come.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

"This ability finds applications ranging from signal processing to invisible cloaking."

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 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

In one memorable case, a pilot lost his bearings after a plane above and in front of him dumped its load of retardant on his windshield, cloaking his view.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2024

I share this anecdote to illustrate the pitfalls of cloaking real-world crises in elaborate settings, costumes and dystopian oddity.

From Salon Jul. 21, 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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