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camouflage

[kam-uh-flahzh] / ˈkæm əˌflɑʒ /




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Billboards across the island still show him in camouflage, rifle in hand, leading the revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

In nature, it’s believed that some beetles are shiny for camouflage, protection and mating purposes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Visitors were greeted by security forces in flak jackets, some in military camouflage and others toting submachine guns, scattered amid a landscape of green pastures, wooden chalets and snowy peaks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

The woman said he had gone with a companion, and both were dressed in camouflage.

From BBC May 19, 2026

An entire army of boys who looked just like him, bred specifically so they could camouflage and go behind enemy lines.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

When Jack, patrolling alone in a heavy rain, sees Robert’s speeding van careen off a mountain road, he takes possession of the loot, camouflages the crash site and celebrates having become an instant millionaire.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

I enter into my old neighborhood with a fluttering in my periphery where new construction or paint camouflages lines and angles and patches of scenery until the unmistakability of my childhood street reveals itself.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2025

One nocturnal bird called a Tawny Frogmouth woke up from where it usually camouflages as a rotting tree stump.

From BBC Apr. 6, 2024

A swath of curtains in a blue-and-white graphic print neatly camouflages the storage shelves along one wall.

From Seattle Times Jun. 2, 2022

The planet noises are so loud I can’t hear, so I slide closer, hoping my gray jumpsuit camouflages me enough that they won’t pay any attention to me.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Hidden in the scrapes, this little tern chick is camouflaged - and vulnerable - on a Norfolk beach.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

In the end, all that’s left is another thinly written woman in horror, camouflaged by tongue-in-cheek jokes and flimsy progressive ideas.

From Salon Jun. 4, 2026

The illegal flows can be camouflaged amid the vast size of Binance, which has trillions of dollars in monthly transactions worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Today, camouflaged National Guard troops patrol Uruapan with rifles nestled, or cruise the streets in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns.

From Barron's May 18, 2026

As their camouflaged troop carriers hummed and tanks growled, they roughhoused, wrestling and knocking one another about.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

"They were camouflaging, they were desperate to be social and wanted to fit in."

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

White walls would cede to green foliage, effectively camouflaging the facade—but also playing into the hands of critics.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

Harris said another developer in the area started camouflaging his construction sites: hiding Porta Potties, removing construction fences and having workers park far away and carpool to the site so as not to attract attention.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 21, 2025

The flightless species comes in three camouflaging varieties, or morphs, that are inherited from one generation to the next.

From Science Magazine May 23, 2024

I press myself down against a thick cluster of roots, camouflaging myself as I’ve been taught.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black




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