camouflage
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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
Liu had taken his children along for the trip "as camouflage".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
In nature, it’s believed that some beetles are shiny for camouflage, protection and mating purposes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
In late May, the Iranian Defense Ministry’s news agency, DEFA, featured a female officer in full camouflage at a meeting of military advisers who had gathered to discuss expanding the conflict beyond the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Like Basil, the shrews were masters of camouflage.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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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
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
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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
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
I wondered if Mr. Kendall had come back over from New Bedford to dig some more, camouflaged by the crowd of others like him.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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Many cope by masking or camouflaging — suppressing autistic traits in order to fit in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
What looks like a small, grey building, with newly planted vegetation camouflaging its roof turns out to be the entrance to an underground operating theatre.
From BBC ● May 23, 2024
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
While the rabbit cooks, I grind up part of a charred branch and set about camouflaging my orange pack.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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