decoy
Example Sentences
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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
The crew had to smuggle its footage out of Romania, using blank reels of film as a decoy for officials to confiscate.
From New York Times
Using genetic engineering, the authors report, it may be possible to test the theory how these genes allow G. diffusa to build its own decoys.
From Salon
In such a system, the main rocket booster pushes a "bus" carrying multiple reentry vehicles and sometimes decoys to confuse missile defence systems, into a suborbital ballistic flight path.
From Reuters
Some of these warheads might be decoys, and contain nothing.
From Salon
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