decoy

The president sent the decoy plane into the air with everyone inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Left behind on the decoy plane were Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and other administration officials and aides.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

The Secret Service used a decoy plan to secretly transfer Trump to a smaller aircraft using a catering truck at the Ankara airport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Two members of US President Donald Trump's cabinet were on a decoy plane that Trump secretly exited before boarding a different flight in Turkey last month, CBS News reports.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

He did not add that his decoy station had supplied vital information to the Nazis.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Some traveling media expressed anger at having unwittingly served as decoys, while others complained about deception and lack of communication from the White House.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Appropriate steps might include building and deploying decoys that look like Patriot air-defense systems or fighter jets to draw enemy fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

From there, he scrambled two convoys as decoys, then drove to the nearby coast as an Emirati drone kept watch overhead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

But there is no evidence that AI can help solve the problem of blocking hundreds of fast-flying warheads embedded in a cloud of decoys.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025

The director said there would be three decoys.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

I sent him on a long scavenger hunt, then decoyed him in for a backhand drop and flicked it crosscourt into open space.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016

But then: "The tempter came, like the serpent of Eden, and decoyed them with the majic word of 'freedom.'"

From Time ● Apr. 7, 2011

Good guess: Natskakula had been decoyed back into the Western zone, then grabbed by Army intelligence operatives.

From Time Magazine Archive

A fourth receiver, the end on the weak side, keeps the safety man decoyed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frank was not a little disgusted because he had been decoyed into the trap, but he did his best to hide his feelings.

From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish

Duplicitous collectors have created a thriving ecosystem of stockpiling, hiding, and decoying that makes it well-nigh impossible to find a scooter in need of charging.

From Slate ● May 22, 2018

And more recently, at Thanksgiving, after I made a queen-high straight on the turn and raked in all the remaining chips, the wind wound up wrong for decoying geese at our favorite blind.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is especially true when you're rattling, calling, or decoying big game.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, he concentrates on controlling the boards, decoying enemy defenders, setting up teammates for open shots.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her gentle efforts to guide the hand of destiny, by decoying her master with fertile tricks or by reticent considerations these had not bean strong enough to be recognized in the despotism of fife.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White