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camouflage

[kam-uh-flahzh] / ˈkæm əˌflɑʒ /




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"There was heavy fighting," said Tawfiq Al Haboun, a bearded commander in camouflage uniform.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The young executive brings an unconventional style to the tech giant, turning up to its development conference in a thrift-store camouflage shirt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

It was the Ruger .22-caliber rifle with a camouflage scope that Roebuck kept in the workshop behind his house.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The pattern may have served as disruptive camouflage, visually breaking up the outline of the crocodile and making it more difficult to distinguish from its surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

Soldiers in camouflage are gesturing to the left, and yell to us.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

When Jack, patrolling alone in a heavy rain, sees Robert’s speeding van careen off a mountain road, he takes possession of the loot, camouflages the crash site and celebrates having become an instant millionaire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

I enter into my old neighborhood with a fluttering in my periphery where new construction or paint camouflages lines and angles and patches of scenery until the unmistakability of my childhood street reveals itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025

One nocturnal bird called a Tawny Frogmouth woke up from where it usually camouflages as a rotting tree stump.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2024

A swath of curtains in a blue-and-white graphic print neatly camouflages the storage shelves along one wall.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2022

The planet noises are so loud I can’t hear, so I slide closer, hoping my gray jumpsuit camouflages me enough that they won’t pay any attention to me.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

The four men were arrested with a surveillance device camouflaged with fake leaves that police say was freshly pulled out of a planter in the residential neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

In the end, all that’s left is another thinly written woman in horror, camouflaged by tongue-in-cheek jokes and flimsy progressive ideas.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

The illegal flows can be camouflaged amid the vast size of Binance, which has trillions of dollars in monthly transactions worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Today, camouflaged National Guard troops patrol Uruapan with rifles nestled, or cruise the streets in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

But now that Roz was camouflaged, she could secretly observe their normal behavior, right up close.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

Many cope by masking or camouflaging — suppressing autistic traits in order to fit in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Masking, camouflaging, trying to blend in - this is what women with autism have been practising to navigate a world that for decades did not even recognise their existence.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

White walls would cede to green foliage, effectively camouflaging the facade—but also playing into the hands of critics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

The flightless species comes in three camouflaging varieties, or morphs, that are inherited from one generation to the next.

From Science Magazine ● May 23, 2024

The carpeting was institutional, with a hectic, stain- camouflaging pattern.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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