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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

For three glorious seasons between 1983 and 1985, ‘80s kids also had the “Dungeons & Dragons” animated series with its two girl heroes: an acrobat and a thief with an invisibility cloak.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

They wanted to be able to cloak this in the air of legitimacy, when it has nothing to do with what a real lawsuit would look like.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026

“I think that irrational exuberance that we saw in the dot com era … is just window dressing to cloak what, to me, is normalizing an addictive behavior in our society,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026

His votola cloak was in a similar state, with dark rusty splotches on it.

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

These thick cloaks of dust might dim the stars' light to the point of utter undetectability.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025

So Yonga and Kapwepwe went to find out more from the community in the Bengweulu region in north-east of the country where the cloaks came from.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025

First of all, before they had eaten or washed or even shed their cloaks, the hobbits went in search of Bilbo.

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

They arrived on the scene cloaked in mystique—interviews were rare, photos tended to be blurry and shot from a distance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

The comfortable red blanket over that cloaked London's councils is no more.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026

Sand and dust storms -- driven by severe drought, rising temperatures and deforestation -- have cloaked cities and villages in an endless ochre haze, grounded flights and filled hospitals with patients suffering from breathing difficulties.

From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025

However, two cloaked men had appeared in the square outside number twelve, and they remained there into the night, gazing in the direction of the house that they could not see.

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

Stirred into the steaming ditalini, the yolk turned silken and rich, cloaking the broth in the sort of luxurious texture that makes you briefly forget modern life altogether.

From Salon ● May 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

And don’t be surprised if that picture is cloaking something behind its frame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

This is a type of online fraud called "cloaking", whereby malicious adverts are able to get past a social media firm's review stage because the fraudsters have hidden their intensions.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024

I instructed it to activate its cloaking device as soon as it dropped out of hyperspace, then locate me on the planet’s surface and land somewhere nearby.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline