guise

“We must remember them. It is their homelands, their well-being and their futures that are also at stake under the guise of ensuring compliance with the Coastal Zone Management Act.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Usually, staff stage them as a tactical bait and switch: Once the block is cleared under the guise of safety, K9 units and search teams move in to tear through the empty cells.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Some countries in the region are welcoming the military taking on a more civilian guise, said Nicholas Coppel, a former Australian ambassador to Myanmar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

"The defendants used the guise of a military operation to induce provocations from North Korea with the aim of creating a state of emergency," the court said.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

She would be lonely and prey for people who sought to undermine her under the guise of being her friends.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The Dartford college, in various guises, trained teachers until the 1980s.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Invasive species came in all guises: foreign pestilence, foreign capital, and the developers.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

In its many guises, idolatry has survived, despite regular and often cataclysmic proof of its dangers, for centuries and many people will consider a much-larger-than-life golden statue of a president to be perfectly splendid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

And at Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Kazakh artist Waldemar Zimbelmann offers viewers a slinky series of self-portraits in which the artist twists, spins and transforms himself in a series of highly textured guises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

Things get complicated when a pronoun, like any good understudy, takes on different guises, depending on the roles it plays in the sentence.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

You may believe you deserve your family’s love only when you are acting in ways they support, but real love should never be guised as fear or control.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

But for all the circusy bravado of the opening montage, this movie is neither trickle-down treat nor bacchanal guised as bromide, but rather an interrogation of an era defined by an obsession with wealth.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2018

Corden approached the subject guised as a recap of the awards show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2017

It showed an excruciatingly ill-at-ease Mr. Segel guised as Wallace circa the mid-’90s — in granny glasses and a bandanna — wearing an expression that seemed to say, “I shouldn’t be here at all.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2015

She had seen him guised as the highwayman.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

She recalls giving out 70 trick or treat bags to children out guising within half an hour one year.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024

"If you look at the origins of lots of the things about Halloween they come from here. Carving turnips, guising, wearing masks to scare off creatures," Evelyn said.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023

In Scotland and other parts of Britain, the practice of "guising," putting on a small performance in exchange for a sweet treat or change, has been a Halloween tradition since the 16th century.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2021

In guidance issued a week ahead of 31 October, people have been told guising and parties are not encouraged.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2020

Lord Grimsby was trying to recall if ever he had heard of the devil guising himself as a young red-headed girl, covering himself, from horned head to cloven hoof, in azure velvet.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various