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smokescreen
noun as in action to confuse or conceal
Strongest match
Example Sentences
It is intended to replicate hunting without killing animals, but critics claim it can be used as a "smokescreen" for the real thing.
It is to take on the language of the left and as a sort of smokescreen for the continued extraction of power and resources for the billionaire class.
Thankfully, we are at a point now where so many journalists and academics recognize that the chaos was a smokescreen, designed to cover very well-laid-out plans that had a rationale stratagem.
Organisers have called the warnings of violence a smokescreen for a potential crackdown by the government, saying it will not put them off.
The IDF disputes this, saying the use of white phosphorus shells to create a smokescreen “is lawful under international law”.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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