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stealthy

[stel-thee] / ˈstɛl θi /


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It could engender pride and joy at your stealthy maneuvers, indifference, resentment or using the friendship as collateral for a loan.

From MarketWatch May 26, 2026

The seamless integration of old and new feels stealthy, and a touch subversive, a doubling-down on the museum’s approach to time as nonlinear, sinuous and delightfully slippery.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

Out of fear of repercussions, many women - and even men - are opting for what they call "stealthy feminism".

From BBC Apr. 18, 2026

The U.S. has deployed F-22s and F-35s, whose stealthy designs allow them to evade being targeted by surface-to-air missiles.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

I climb up the ladder to the next landing, as stealthy and nimble as Max was when she picked up the nurse's badge and freed us from the locked unit.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

Iran has a clear geopolitical motive and a history of targeting the water sector, and the fact that the attacks were readily detected makes a stealthier adversary like China less likely, Kaiser said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

A stealthier and less obvious plan would be financial repression, in which interest rates are held down below the rate of nominal growth of the economy, which consists of real growth plus inflation.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

More significant, or at least stealthier and less visible, are the years of spending to come.

From Salon Mar. 19, 2022

At the same time, the country has been developing a stealthier method of delivering its nuclear warheads through S.L.B.M.s.

From New York Times Oct. 18, 2021

I learned that socks are stealthier transportation than shoes.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

“The marriage of sensibilities in front of and behind the camera is the stealthiest meeting in ‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros,’ and the most unexpectedly satisfying.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 2026

Christine McVie, her band’s sturdiest yet somewhat stealthiest member, soars into the refrain on a rising melody that feels like a heart being released from gravity.

From Washington Post Dec. 1, 2022

The stealthiest danger in a world shaken by ongoing calamities might be that calamity becomes ordinary.

From New York Times Nov. 10, 2022

The concept with the Columbias is to not only architect something that will be upgraded to accommodate new nuclear missiles as they emerge, but also to construct the stealthiest submarine ever to exist.

From Fox News Nov. 11, 2020

Just one of Gebu’s heavy footfalls—even at his stealthiest they were audible—and the whole household would be shouting the alarm.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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