camouflage

It was the Ruger .22-caliber rifle with a camouflage scope that Roebuck kept in the workshop behind his house.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The pattern may have served as disruptive camouflage, visually breaking up the outline of the crocodile and making it more difficult to distinguish from its surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

The two brothers' coffins, draped in the Iran-backed group's yellow flag, portraits of them in camouflage fatigues fixed to the front, led the procession through the village battered by repeated conflict over nearly three years.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Women’s faces were flaked with mud and ash, camouflage from the Russians they’d applied while trekking through the woods.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

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

They’re small, kidney-shaped, and come in color-coordinated shades, which camouflages them to near-invisibility.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024

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

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2024

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

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

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

In 1993 it denied inspectors access to camouflaged nuclear sites, leaving the world to guess whether it had separated plutonium for bombs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

On a tree trunk in Thailand's Khao Phra Thaeo Non-Hunting Area, a tiny male broad-headed bark spider rides on the abdomen of a camouflaged female, waiting for her to moult so he can mate.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

In the robot factory I camouflaged my personality to survive.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

"So for them to be camouflaging as something else… it's very, very uncommon."

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025

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

He liked the camouflaging pattern of the thick fabric and sometimes tipped the thing on its side and shot rubber- tipped arrows at me and Lelia from behind its cover.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee