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camouflage

[kam-uh-flahzh] / ˈkæm əˌflɑʒ /




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Studs never helped me camouflage, exactly, but they did and do ground me.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

In late May, the Iranian Defense Ministry’s news agency, DEFA, featured a female officer in full camouflage at a meeting of military advisers who had gathered to discuss expanding the conflict beyond the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

"I've been fascinated for a long time by the camouflage and disruptive patterning of moth wings," she added.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

There were the elderly volunteers busily weaving camouflage nets in an Odesa community center.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Painted wood, pipe guardrail...Some teachers try, but there’s nothing anyone can do to camouflage it.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

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

Then Annabeth moved aside a woven circle of branches, like a door, and I realized I was. looking into a camouflaged shelter.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

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

It’s baked into the foundation of the place, camouflaging as scaffolding as we go about our daily routines.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2025

Kieran Moulton, a PhD student at the University of the West of England, has conducted multiple studies into tattooing as a method of "camouflaging or decorating" scars.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2024

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

While the rabbit cooks, I grind up part of a charred branch and set about camouflaging my orange pack.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins




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