mask
Example Sentences
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But these grand aggregate numbers mask worrying underlying data.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
Tasting the coffee properly requires slurping it with gusto, hence the music to mask the sounds of dozens of people slurping and spitting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
That means they mask their identity by flying different flags, turn off their tracking systems to avoid detection, and are unlikely to be fully insured.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Many homes “inappropriately diagnosed residents with schizophrenia to mask the nursing homes’ misuse of antipsychotic drugs and to artificially inflate their star ratings,” it adds.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
“That’s when you remembered that the mask we found in the trash only had green ooze on its nose, right?”
From "A Monster of a Mystery (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #5)" by Franklin W. Dixon
Vocabulary lists containing mask
Theater - Introductory
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Ancient Greece: Mythology and Literature - Middle School
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Ancient Greece: Mythology and Literature - Introductory
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