decoy
Example Sentences
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The lawsuit was the result of an undercover investigation into Meta’s platforms that created decoy profiles posing as children aged 14 years and younger.
“The information they pass will be decoy intelligence, but we want to see if there is German movement in reaction to the information.”
From Literature
Nicknamed "the Bone", the aircraft has advanced radar and GPS systems to help hit targets, and electronic jammers, radar warnings and a decoy system to protect it from enemies.
From BBC
Other times I’m delivering a message to one address, and the rest of my package is a decoy.
From Literature
But no country has pushed the balloon frontier further than Ukraine, which is using them to execute audacious strikes deep inside Russia, as well as for reconnaissance and transportation, and as decoys.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
