cloak
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Like Maddie, she can easily cloak compulsions under the blanket of modern body positivity.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
That creates a cloak of consistency, because people expect interventions, but it does not necessarily mean VAR is being used as originally intended, for the real howlers.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Although relatively complex, and therefore more expensive than the matchlock, smaller wheellocks—the first pistols—could be used with one hand and concealed under a cloak or other garment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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
He was still several blocks away when a woman wearing a wide-brimmed bonnet and a fur cloak approached.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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
These thick cloaks of dust might dim the stars' light to the point of utter undetectability.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025
So Yonga and Kapwepwe went to find out more from the community in the Bengweulu region in north-east of the country where the cloaks came from.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
Milligan took the cloaks back from the children.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
It’s cloaked language, but a nod to NIMBYs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Whatever happens will be cloaked in lies — and followed by gaslighting.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Ms. Winger has always been a film actor of luminous transparency; her performance here, by contrast, feels cloaked in artifice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In moments when opportunity is cloaked in nuance, we have long relied upon John Marshall, Goldman Sachs’ derivatives strategist.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Beyond the swamp that smelled of still water, they walked past ancient trees cloaked in vines.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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
The researchers found they could accomplish this by "cloaking" the proteins with a negatively charged ion, so they would join with the positively charged lipids electrostatically.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
Despite what I’d seen and how nervous the soldiers made me feel, there was an intoxicating kind of energy that filled the air, cloaking everything.
From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez
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