stealthy
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TOKYO—Among the more eye-catching products in Tokyo’s new defense shopfront: a sleek and stealthy warship that can hunt submarines, deploy underwater drones and operate with a lean crew.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
It could engender pride and joy at your stealthy maneuvers, indifference, resentment or using the friendship as collateral for a loan.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
The seamless integration of old and new feels stealthy, and a touch subversive, a doubling-down on the museum’s approach to time as nonlinear, sinuous and delightfully slippery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Out of fear of repercussions, many women - and even men - are opting for what they call "stealthy feminism".
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
But the peach...ah, yes...the peach was a soft, stealthy traveler, making no noise at all as it floated along.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
Iran has a clear geopolitical motive and a history of targeting the water sector, and the fact that the attacks were readily detected makes a stealthier adversary like China less likely, Kaiser said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
A stealthier and less obvious plan would be financial repression, in which interest rates are held down below the rate of nominal growth of the economy, which consists of real growth plus inflation.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
His off-kilter demeanor looks especially dangerous in scenes he shares with Strong or May, whose Empress is stealthier than the strutting warrior she showcased in “The Witcher.”
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2024
It gives Australia U.S. technology to build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, which are stealthier, have longer and deeper range and are more sophisticated than conventional subs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
It contained only classrooms and so at this hour was perfectly empty, which made us stealthier than ever.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Christine McVie, her band’s sturdiest yet somewhat stealthiest member, soars into the refrain on a rising melody that feels like a heart being released from gravity.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
She pulled off maybe her stealthiest act of cinematic larceny in “Happiest Season,” a cheerful holiday rom-com in which Plaza, a supporting player, nonetheless positioned herself as a plausible, even preferable, romantic ideal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
The concept with the Columbias is to not only architect something that will be upgraded to accommodate new nuclear missiles as they emerge, but also to construct the stealthiest submarine ever to exist.
From Fox News ● Nov. 11, 2020
Described as the stealthiest ever built in the UK, the £1bn boat was being put through sea trials and was not armed.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2010
Just one of Gebu’s heavy footfalls—even at his stealthiest they were audible—and the whole household would be shouting the alarm.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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