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Which tools did the magician Harry Houdini conceal in his tricks?

conceal

[kuhn-seel] / kΙ™nˈsil /


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"They are very sensitive to such measures because they could expose information that the regime has sought to conceal -- the realities of South and North Korea."

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Fires that burn slowly through the understory are particularly difficult to detect because the vegetation above them can conceal their heat signatures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

BBC Panorama and the Bureau for Investigative Journalism uncovered hundreds of documents that were falsified and backdated to conceal his wealth and evade tax.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Report cards covered in A’s can conceal years of missed learning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Elizabeth's well-honed espionage skills kicked in immediately: She managed to conceal Jacob's true identity from the policemen who investigated his death, and she gathered and burned all his many papers in her apartment's fireplace.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Taiwan, once widely known as Formosa, conceals a remarkable natural world within its steep and rugged interior.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Antarctica is a challenging place for palaeontologists to work and the ice conceals the prehistoric record in the rock beneath.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

The presidency is a skin suit that barely conceals this ambition.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

Heusinger’s James has a seductive earnestness that conceals some shocking character developments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

The wounds Snow made, snow conceals, but that was wrong.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The new approach instead separates information from different regions, allowing researchers to identify atmospheric variations that would otherwise be concealed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Federal prosecutors say an OpenAI engineer concealed an encrypted audio recording device in toilet paper behind a conference-room television.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

According to a Richmond Police Department social media post on Tuesday, officers responded to the area of 16th Street and Livingston Avenue to a report of a man walking around with a concealed rifle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

The paintings were hidden behind a solid cinder-block wall and concealed so well that they were discovered only during a second search.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Next to me, Lloyd was half his natural size, almost completely concealed by his pillow.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Android competitors offer larger inner display areas, but Apple focuses heavily on the quality of the hinge and concealing the crease where the phone folds rather than sheer screen real estate, analysts say.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

On Wednesday, prosecutors from eight US states also sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, a rival AI lab that could go public next year, for allegedly concealing certain risks and implementing inadequate safeguards.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Both were accused of concealing the dangers of their very profitable products.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

But this week, the soccer world learned just how City spent nine years concealing the true sources of its income to bankroll one of the most expensive rosters ever to take the pitch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

I had tried concealing myself in the powder room, but it didn't work.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath


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