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camouflage

[kam-uh-flahzh] / ˈkæm əˌflɑʒ /




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He said the mother said guns were missing and that her son left with a companion wearing camouflage outfits.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

It offers a fluffy kind of camouflage when you want to hide from the world’s troubles.

From Salon May 17, 2026

Current and former workers at the plant described the obsolescence rationale as camouflage for a cold-eyed decision to offshore manufacturing to a lower-cost country.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

Few of them notice the men in camouflage watching from a distance.

From Barron's May 5, 2026

One was wearing camouflage; the other, foolishly, wore a bright red hat.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

They’re small, kidney-shaped, and come in color-coordinated shades, which camouflages them to near-invisibility.

From Salon Sep. 30, 2024

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

From BBC Apr. 6, 2024

“I hope Roz camouflages herself as a rock. Forever.”

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

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

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

In 1993 it denied inspectors access to camouflaged nuclear sites, leaving the world to guess whether it had separated plutonium for bombs.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

Hanson, who spends much of his life crawling through underbrush to count trees, plunged ahead into stands of chest-high ceanothus, pointing out sequoias camouflaged in the pervasive post-fire brush.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2026

The gun-emplacements are camouflaged with bushes against aerial observation, and look like a kind of military Feast of the Tabernacles.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

It’s baked into the foundation of the place, camouflaging as scaffolding as we go about our daily routines.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2025

Kieran Moulton, a PhD student at the University of the West of England, has conducted multiple studies into tattooing as a method of "camouflaging or decorating" scars.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2024

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

While the rabbit cooks, I grind up part of a charred branch and set about camouflaging my orange pack.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins




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