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cloak

[klohk] / kloʊk /




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For three glorious seasons between 1983 and 1985, ‘80s kids also had the “Dungeons & Dragons” animated series with its two girl heroes: an acrobat and a thief with an invisibility cloak.

From Salon Jun. 24, 2026

Although relatively complex, and therefore more expensive than the matchlock, smaller wheellocks—the first pistols—could be used with one hand and concealed under a cloak or other garment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

They wanted to be able to cloak this in the air of legitimacy, when it has nothing to do with what a real lawsuit would look like.

From Slate Jun. 9, 2026

“I think that irrational exuberance that we saw in the dot com era … is just window dressing to cloak what, to me, is normalizing an addictive behavior in our society,” he said.

From MarketWatch May 19, 2026

Still, she acknowledged none of them, her blood-red cloak brushing the stone floor of the castle.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

Throughout the holy city, Iranian flags can be seen printed on white pilgrims' garments, cloaks, bags and buses.

From Barron's May 25, 2026

Michael Jackson’s celebrity is so blinding, his music so compelling, that it cloaks him with an almost impenetrable shield from the truth: He was a stone cold pedophile.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

Here, the evildoers receive sumptuous cloaks along with their metaphorical daggers.

From Salon Jan. 28, 2026

These thick cloaks of dust might dim the stars' light to the point of utter undetectability.

From Science Daily Oct. 9, 2025

“And you!” he said, addressing the Jewish men, their cloaks covered in mud.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

The king has moved swiftly to protect it, displaying what James Knox, who has worked closely with Charles, once described to me as “steely determination cloaked in marvelous manners.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

"We shouldn't just think dinosaurs are mammals cloaked in scales and feathers," Holtz said.

From Science Daily Feb. 27, 2026

Sand and dust storms -- driven by severe drought, rising temperatures and deforestation -- have cloaked cities and villages in an endless ochre haze, grounded flights and filled hospitals with patients suffering from breathing difficulties.

From Barron's Dec. 28, 2025

Thick fog cloaked much of Los Angeles overnight, resulting in reduced visibility and dangerous driving conditions.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2025

This was exactly what no one would have expected, and of course villains were not announced with hisses or soliloquies, they did not come cloaked in black, with ugly expressions.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

"This ability finds applications ranging from signal processing to invisible cloaking."

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

Stirred into the steaming ditalini, the yolk turned silken and rich, cloaking the broth in the sort of luxurious texture that makes you briefly forget modern life altogether.

From Salon May 12, 2026

I’m including the comments in full because of how out of character they were for a Fed chair best known for cloaking his future decisions:

From Barron's Mar. 18, 2026

And don’t be surprised if that picture is cloaking something behind its frame.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2024

Despite what I’d seen and how nervous the soldiers made me feel, there was an intoxicating kind of energy that filled the air, cloaking everything.

From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez




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