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camouflage

[kam-uh-flahzh] / ˈkæm əˌflɑʒ /




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Dressed in a camouflage bomber jacket, his eyes continued to linger on the magnified view of the downtown skyline as he spoke.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 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 pattern may have served as disruptive camouflage, visually breaking up the outline of the crocodile and making it more difficult to distinguish from its surroundings.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

In dusty streets teeming with men in camouflage and scattered with wrecked military vehicles she scours for scenes of normality to post on the city social media pages.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

I did my best to camouflage my anxiety by singing along to the stupid songs on the radio.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

One nocturnal bird called a Tawny Frogmouth woke up from where it usually camouflages as a rotting tree stump.

From BBC Apr. 6, 2024

A swath of curtains in a blue-and-white graphic print neatly camouflages the storage shelves along one wall.

From Seattle Times Jun. 2, 2022

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

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

The illegal flows can be camouflaged amid the vast size of Binance, which has trillions of dollars in monthly transactions worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 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

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

The interior voice nagging me not to be a fool—to save my skin and take off my skis and walk down, camouflaged by the scrub pines bordering the slope—fled like a disconsolate mosquito.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Many cope by masking or camouflaging — suppressing autistic traits in order to fit in.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

"They were camouflaging, they were desperate to be social and wanted to fit in."

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Despite the solemn themes of his songs, Kahan avoids self-seriousness by regularly poking fun at his own lyrics, partially camouflaging anguished music behind comedic patter.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 2026

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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