How to Use in the guise of in a Sentence

in the guise of

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  • Over the past eight years, the challenge of keeping it running has cloaked me in the guise of a car person.
    Georgia Cloepfil, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Death, in the guise of the nineteenth, presses up against her time line, both haunting and evading her.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Even Ben Long sits, to the far right, in the guise of Doubting Thomas.
    Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • Even in the guise of comedy, that kind of accusation should not be made lightly.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But timidity in the guise of strategic discretion is very much the old playbook.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Losing so much mass in the guise of all this gas had a feedback effect, loosening the cluster's hold on its stars.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Take, for example, The Nation of Plants, a polemic in the guise of a plea.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Alex Katz is 95, and still painting like a charging rhino in the guise of a Paris dandy.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • This sector can bring windfalls in the guise of loans, inheritances, or other forms of credit.
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 4 June 2024
  • While there's no rivalry per se, there is a shape-shifting entity that will attack a victim in the guise of their lover.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
  • This felt like a way to Trojan Horse, a bit of a social justice story in the guise of a true crime story.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • And in 2022, another big problem arrived in the guise of the war in Ukraine.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Germany has promoted its own interests in the guise of doing what’s best for the EU.
    Sudha David-Wilp, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The filibuster once was an outlaw move in the guise of a parliamentary procedure.
    Washington Post, 5 July 2021
  • For instance, Duolingo, which in essence is a form in the guise of a quiz makes answering questions engaging.
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2021
  • There is a real risk that in the guise of serving the regulated, regulators serve themselves.
    Robert Zafft, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Together the two brands have created table clocks in the guise of tanks, jellyfish, spiders and spaceships.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2022
  • An unrelenting machine assassin in the guise of a human is hunting him, which also puts his three children in harm's way.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 15 May 2024
  • Bosses dominate the narrative of business, in the guise of leadership.
    Dave Winsborough, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Even though Arthur, in the guise of the Joker, cracks jokes and tries to avoid facing what is done, Gary is pointing out the horror of his acts.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The harshest critics contend S&P is trying to grab market share, in the guise of improving its model.
    Leslie Scism, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The agency said the professor had female students remove their shirts and wear only their bras in the guise of role-playing a medical assessment.
    Corinne Dorsey, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • There, she was forced to create social media profiles, in the guise of a rich Asian woman living in California.
    Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • For United, having an extra forward capable of operating between the lines in the guise of a wing-back proved useful.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • That afternoon, the reading was from Psalm 23, in which God, in the guise of a shepherd, leads his flock through the valley of the shadow of death.
    Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • In the middle of the ceiling was a representation of Europa kidnapped by Jupiter in the guise of a bull, though the scene is incomplete.
    Sarah Belmont For Artnews, Robb Report, 5 July 2023
  • From fashion to wine, Million Goods holds a deep sense of curation and discovery in the guise of numerous menswear aesthetics.
    Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The fascinating thing about this decision was that Huang didn’t know who might want to buy a supercomputer in the guise of a graphics card, or how many such people were out there.
    James Surowiecki, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Jenner's own bob-pixie hybrid was styled in the guise of Sophia Loren, soft curls shorn to fall sultry across her face, a spritely flip at the nape of the neck keeping things sweet and stylized.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The move, in the guise of addressing the abuse and misuse of social media in Mauritius, is in essence a push to decrypt social media, including private messages.
    Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Quartz, 8 July 2021

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