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conceal

[kuhn-seel] / kənˈsil /


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The suit will claim that federal agents lied about the incident and that the purpose of the government’s prosecution was to conceal agents’ behavior the day of the shooting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Nor, he said, would the retailer’s AI shopping assistant, Sparky, use information customers shared to raise prices or conceal cheaper options.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

Fires that burn slowly through the understory are particularly difficult to detect because the vegetation above them can conceal their heat signatures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

According to the case file seen by AFP, their consortium used shell companies and Albanian and foreign nationals, notably Dutch and Italian, to conceal the identity of the real owners of the concessions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

“The Veil” she cried, unable to conceal her excitement.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Taiwan, once widely known as Formosa, conceals a remarkable natural world within its steep and rugged interior.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

The presidency is a skin suit that barely conceals this ambition.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

The network of shadow fleet tankers conceals their role in transporting oil from Iran, Russia and other sanctioned countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Heusinger’s James has a seductive earnestness that conceals some shocking character developments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

That evening, Marlena conceals her black eye with pancake makeup and does her liberty act.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Achieving this would require materials that can actively control heat within the concealed region.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

But the Rays recognized that Baker’s ordinary statistics concealed a changeup that might become the ultimate weapon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The nine-carat, pear-shaped gemstone known as the "Grand Condé" was pilfered in an overnight raid on the Château de Chantilly in October 1926 and concealed in a hollowed-out apple.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

According to a Richmond Police Department social media post on Tuesday, officers responded to the area of 16th Street and Livingston Avenue to a report of a man walking around with a concealed rifle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Coveting the directorship as a way to build his own bureaucratic empire, Hoover concealed from Stone the extent of his role in domestic surveillance operations and promised to disband the intelligence division.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Android competitors offer larger inner display areas, but Apple focuses heavily on the quality of the hinge and concealing the crease where the phone folds rather than sheer screen real estate, analysts say.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Hartnett plays the hapless man well but his naivety could be concealing something more sinister, as it did in the M. Night Shyamalan thriller “Trap.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

On Aug. 18, the day after prosecutors officially filed their case in court, Paul Robinson, who faces charges of felony tampering and concealing evidence, made a plea on Facebook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

In 1998, Max was sentenced to community service teaching art in Harlem and a $30,000 fine after prosecutors charged him with concealing $714,000 in income from art sales between 1988 and 1991.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

She was not concealing facts, but feelings, attitudes, convictions which she did not want me to know; and she became angry when I prodded her.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright


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