guise

Under the guise of official business but with a journalist’s hankering for a lead, he interviews relatives and past neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

“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

"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

Still, what little we say to one another often comes back in another guise.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

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

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

Abbe Maury did not pull; but the Charcoalmen brought a mummer guised like him, so he had to pull in effigy.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

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