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cloak

[klohk] / kloʊk /




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Like Maddie, she can easily cloak compulsions under the blanket of modern body positivity.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

The German was supposed to be the elite coach who would make the difference when it mattered, throw off the perceived cloak of conservatism that held back England under Southgate.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

They wanted to be able to cloak this in the air of legitimacy, when it has nothing to do with what a real lawsuit would look like.

From Slate Jun. 9, 2026

“I think that irrational exuberance that we saw in the dot com era … is just window dressing to cloak what, to me, is normalizing an addictive behavior in our society,” he said.

From MarketWatch May 19, 2026

Soon after, he’d also adopted a cloak to cover his patchy fur, a hooded garment made of crushed velvet the color of beetroot.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Throughout the holy city, Iranian flags can be seen printed on white pilgrims' garments, cloaks, bags and buses.

From Barron's May 25, 2026

Michael Jackson’s celebrity is so blinding, his music so compelling, that it cloaks him with an almost impenetrable shield from the truth: He was a stone cold pedophile.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

Here, the evildoers receive sumptuous cloaks along with their metaphorical daggers.

From Salon Jan. 28, 2026

These thick cloaks of dust might dim the stars' light to the point of utter undetectability.

From Science Daily Oct. 9, 2025

At last they reached the crest of the grey hill, and a sudden breeze blew in their hair and stirred their cloaks: the chill wind of dawn.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The king has moved swiftly to protect it, displaying what James Knox, who has worked closely with Charles, once described to me as “steely determination cloaked in marvelous manners.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

"We shouldn't just think dinosaurs are mammals cloaked in scales and feathers," Holtz said.

From Science Daily Feb. 27, 2026

Andrew's office, in a leafy village to the south of Manchester, also resembled a scene from a TV drama - cloaked in yellow crime tape, staff in shock and records being boxed up.

From BBC Feb. 13, 2026

Sand and dust storms -- driven by severe drought, rising temperatures and deforestation -- have cloaked cities and villages in an endless ochre haze, grounded flights and filled hospitals with patients suffering from breathing difficulties.

From Barron's Dec. 28, 2025

In fact—I took a quick glance back at the other cloaked figures and inhaled sharply—he wasn’t the only one.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

"This ability finds applications ranging from signal processing to invisible cloaking."

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

I’m including the comments in full because of how out of character they were for a Fed chair best known for cloaking his future decisions:

From Barron's Mar. 18, 2026

These days, society’s most dangerous villains don’t bother with cloaking themselves despite what the conspiracy-minded choose to believe.

From Salon Apr. 16, 2025

In one memorable case, a pilot lost his bearings after a plane above and in front of him dumped its load of retardant on his windshield, cloaking his view.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2024

Yossarian shouted back at him in the velvet darkness cloaking the path leading past the still vehicles of the motor pool to the open-air movie theater.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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