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Definition of stealth
1a archaic : theftb obsolete : something stolen
2 : the act or action of proceeding furtively, secretly, or imperceptibly the state moves by stealth to gather information — Nat Hentoff
3 : the state of being furtive or unobtrusive
4 : an aircraft-design characteristic consisting of oblique angular construction and avoidance of vertical surfaces that is intended to produce a very weak radar return
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Examples of stealth in a Sentence
The fox uses stealth and cunning to hunt its prey.
Recent Examples of stealth from the Web
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Featuring a more mature (23-year-old) Spider Man, swing between New York City skyscrapers, use parkour to nimbly scale obstacles, and engage in stealth and combat sequences.
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And there’s the Ninja Cat, a classic in which a kitty sees the camera, then moves gradually closer, proceeding with intense stealth.
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An extended stealth sequence followed: sneaking into the woods, through an outlaw camp, and then past a massive horde of zombies… before blowing a hole in a defensive wall and letting those zombies overrun everything.
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Fifteen eel species, all close cousins, work their way in similar stealth up and down rivers throughout the world, from Europe to New Zealand. '
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TRUBISKY HAD NO IDEA THE BEARS WERE DRAFTING HIM: How Chicago relied on stealth to get its quarterback of the future 7.
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Louise Lawler is one of the great light-heavyweights of the 1980s Pictures Generation, an artist of stealth, wit and elegant understatement, adept at playing the art world against itself.
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So, not realizing Damon and the boys were all at home, Westerfield crept through an open side-yard door, through an unlocked garage door and up the stairs to Danielle’s room with cat-burglar stealth.
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In an assault Friday marked by ruthlessness and stealth, a handful of Taliban fighters managed to enter a base teeming with soldiers and kill at least 140 of them shortly after the weekly prayer service there.
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Origin and Etymology of stealth
Middle English stelthe; akin to Old English stelan to steal
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Definition of stealth
: intended not to attract attention : stealthy a stealth campaign
Examples of stealth in a Sentence
the SWAT team carried out a stealth raid on the house, which was believed to be harboring a terrorist cell
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There's something else, too, well known to hunters: an uncanny ability to vanish, or to hide in plain sight like a stealth bomber.
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The stealth decision always looked a little hinky because the IAAF bypassed its normal bid process to make the award.
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Take Victoria's Secret Angel Candice Swanepoel, who ran with the bionic hair growth that comes with pregnancy (and perhaps a few stealth extensions) only to cancel trims indefinitely with her stylist ever since.
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Team8 co-founder and CEO Nadav Zafrir told Reuters that one company will move out of stealth mode in a few weeks while another will do the same in early 2018 without elaborating.
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The idea was to create an energy version of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — the military program that led to breakthroughs like global positioning systems and stealth aircraft.
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Really Last-Minute Gifts Use your stealth social media-creeper skills to find out about an upcoming dinner date and call the restaurant the day of to make arrangements.
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ACT for America activists portray Shariah as largely incompatible with American democracy and often warn of a stealth effort to replace U.S. law with Islamic law.
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Submarines are the ultimate stealth weapon, mobile and notoriously hard to find.
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First Known Use of stealth
1987
STEALTH Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of stealth for English Language Learners
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: a secret, quiet, and clever way of moving or behaving
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Definition of stealth for English Language Learners
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—used to describe military aircraft that are designed so that they cannot be easily seen by radar
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: done or happening in a secret or quiet way that does not attract attention
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