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While Abraham turned to the woods to stay under cover, in the alleys of Georgetown, G. and his friend K. found shelter from the rain and clearings in a narrow alcove behind a stairwell on private property.

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Under cover of night, trucks have been regularly dumping rotten produce in an industrial neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles.

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Greenpeace members, pretending to be drunk, smuggled a 120-pound replacement bearing onto the ship by disguising it as a load of beer, then sailed the boat out of the Spanish base at El Ferrol under cover of darkness.

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Under cover of darkness, a nocturnal creature emerges from a crate and takes its first tentative steps into a new life in the wild.

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In the meantime, the court maintained its freeze on further deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, prohibiting the government from attempting more summary deportations from Texas to El Salvador under cover of darkness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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