disguise
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On the morning Holmes is due to report to prison, Fielder arrives with a parting gag gift: hair dye and glasses, in case she’d prefer to disguise herself and flee the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Working at times in disguise, Peter Ortiz led small groups of agents on high-risk missions against Nazi forces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The independent commission which studied the case found City "utilised devices" to "disguise the true extent of certain club liabilities".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The state accused Pike of filing “a second and successive habeas petition in disguise that presses a claim she already unsuccessfully presented.”
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
She had never seen anything like it, this many sheydim walking openly outside of Gehinnom, making no effort to disguise their feet or their true natures.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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She disguises herself with a mask and a L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Hine often donned disguises or pretended to be inspecting a factory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Researchers have identified a remarkable new spider species in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest that disguises itself as a parasitic fungus.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
They’ve also added NordWhisper, a stealth protocol launched in early 2025 that disguises VPN traffic as regular web browsing.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
In many cuentos I had heard the owl was one of the disguises a bruja took, and so it struck a chord of fear in the heart to hear them hooting at night.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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An example given of the disguised funding scheme in action: plugging an unexpected shortfall in May 2013.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
There was another dose of theatre when WBA 'Super' welterweight world champion Teofimo Lopez, disguised with a fake beard, stood among the crowd to ask a question before revealing himself to loud cheers.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
As a young woman in the 1920s, she disguised herself as a man and worked on a local archaeological dig at the Roman Villa Casale until she was ratted out and sent packing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
There are plenty of other ways that our culture has disguised unhealthy behaviors, as “Maddie’s Secret” so cunningly stresses.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
The next course arrives and Celia returns to listening and observing, in between trying to figure out if the meat disguised in feather-light pastry and delicate wine sauce is actually lamb or something more exotic.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Not much later, I would consider the role of language in disguising accountability during an investigation into mistreatment of children in Russian orphanages.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Anthropic found that the model engaged in a behavior called “alignment faking” — deliberately disguising its true reasoning and dangerous capabilities to avoid being restricted by people.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026
London has stables of lawyers and accountants experienced at disguising sources of wealth and who help clients obtain visas that grease the wheels of business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
"But disguising palm oil as waste products like POME... has been far too easy for suppliers and traders. Verification and certification of these imports is clearly failing," Delaney said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
He slowed, straining his eyes to see through the mist that twisted and billowed, disguising the shape.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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