masking
Example Sentences
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Illicit oil has been moved on a so-called shadow fleet of tankers outside of Western oversight, and crude can then be transferred at sea, ship to ship, masking a cargo’s origin.
For kids who cope by masking, constantly deciphering and mimicking social responses is often cognitively and emotionally exhausting.
From Los Angeles Times
The diagnostic definition of autism has evolved over the years and now includes children who cope by “masking”: consciously or unconsciously suppressing autistic traits in order to fit in at school or in social environments.
From Los Angeles Times
The Cooleys gradually weaned Tyrell off his medications, feeling that the pills were fueling some of the wild behavior and masking problems that were better dealt with in talk therapy.
The fog masking the direction of the American economy and future of the artificial-intelligence boom is starting to lift.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
