guise
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“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
Whether in its original eight-mile guise, or the shortened 4.3-mile version used since 1983, it has a combination of flowing, high and medium-speed corners matched by very few circuits in the world.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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
Gates was now in his senior year, and somehow he managed to convince his teachers to let him decamp for Bonneville under the guise of an independent study project.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Berenger, a character who appears in different guises in several of his plays, is Ionesco’s version of Everyman.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Invasive species came in all guises: foreign pestilence, foreign capital, and the developers.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
The city is ever-evolving, the past giving way to the future, birthing new guises and blurring the old.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
What emerges from “Tradecraft” is not just the portrait of a master storyteller, but of a man driven by a relentless search for narrative truth in all its guises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
But the rat would not leave me; he presented himself in many attractive guises.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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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
No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth,—What shall be done with Negroes?
From The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
She recalls giving out 70 trick or treat bags to children out guising within half an hour one year.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
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
The announcement of the guidance follows comments by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Thursday, who said it was "not safe" for guising to be allowed this year, due to Covid-19.
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
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