stealthy
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The team is now investigating other possibilities, including the development of "stealthy" hepatocytes that could escape immune detection.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Alas, like the Titanic, it is apparently not as tricked out or as stealthy as advertised.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The military also has sent aerial tankers, F-16 jet fighters from Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany and stealthy F-35s from the air base at Lakenheath, England, to the region, the WSJ previously reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
Switching to meows, she directed the cats in a stealthy flanking attack.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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
Rather than chase him, authorities came up with another — stealthier — plan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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
It contained only classrooms and so at this hour was perfectly empty, which made us stealthier than ever.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
She pulled off maybe her stealthiest act of cinematic larceny in “Happiest Season,” a cheerful holiday rom-com in which Plaza, a supporting player, nonetheless positioned herself as a plausible, even preferable, romantic ideal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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
Throughout his career, Murnane, Australia’s stealthiest Nobel candidate, has drawn parallels to J.M.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
Japan has more of these larger, blue-water vessels like destroyers, and some of the world’s stealthiest submarines.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2015
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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