disguise
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“Partly it’s because a humble person may be a god in disguise, but it also allows society to function. People need to travel, to trade, and everyone is at the mercy of strangers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
That has raised concerns that some listings could be misrepresented, unsafe, or used to disguise more illicit services.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
During a nighttime field survey, researchers initially mistook the animal for a mushroom, highlighting just how convincing its disguise is.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
It’s a disguise “Obsession” wears so well that it’s fooling people into thinking this perfectly adequate film marks the arrival of a new horror classic.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
Mom is trying to disguise how she sounds, but I would recognize that voice anywhere.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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
Feeling angrily outcast from her community, Mary tried to rise from her station by assuming a variety of disguises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
She explained that the book opened her eyes to the "disguises" many Victorian women novelists were forced to adopt in order to be heard.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
No one recognized them, and they felt proud of their disguises.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
UC is not Harvard, and was never meant to embody that type of self-perpetuating exclusivity disguised as a meritocracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
In each case, a low price-to-earnings ratio disguised an unsustainable uptick in profits.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
Sometimes they arrive disguised as an argument over a single preposition.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
Former Borussia Dortmund manager Edin Terzic admitted that he disguised himself as a steward to watch a Real Madrid training session before a Champions League fixture in 2013.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
The document offered a fifteen-year, fixed-rate loan, but it was bizarrely disguised as a thirty-year loan.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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
Casemiro turned his body and head to face towards the left, disguising his intentions - causing Fulham midfielder Alex Iwobi to shift that way.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
For after 1765 Copley freely adapted and combined motifs from different prints in his paintings, often disguising their origins so completely that we cannot be certain which they were.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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