guise

Example Sentences

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“When I think about a song like ‘Take It,’ it’s more about loss and more in the guise of a relationship.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

"Right now Ginger is in a fine fettle, continuing to write songs that will be released under the guise of The Wildhearts and as solo projects in the future."

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Nevertheless, in her beaver guise Mabel learns that Jerry’s team, which swears its development plans cleared the environmental-review process, deployed some skulduggery to make it work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

The backlash caused Ring to cancel a deal with tech surveillance company Flock Safety, which sells its tools to police and governments under the guise of stopping crime.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

Let me end, then, with a couple of additional bad inferences which are further suggestive of the role that innumeracy—in the guise of fallacious logic—plays in pseudoscience.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos