as in concealment
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Noun
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Into the depths of a forest teeming with spotted creatures, each of them full of stealth and danger and desire enough to kill a man.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025 -
As Time explains, the whistles represent the group's preference for melee combat and stealth over the use of firearms.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Apr. 2025
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That phonetic play alone already signals one of the project’s theoretical subterfuges: that of exploring the most advanced conditions of the subject’s annihilation as a foundational precondition for artistic authority.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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An especially Jewish theme in the seventeenth century was not only the necessity but the dignity of subterfuge; to have lived in the shadows of another people’s empire had a nobility of its own, captured in this exquisite and ambivalent image.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
19 July 2025
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The story noted the hospital's increasing reticence to comment on any political or controversial topics.—
Patricia Gallagher Newberry,
The Enquirer,
1 Aug. 2025
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This technological bottleneck is compounded by serious supply chain vulnerabilities caused by the U.S.'s reticence to embrace new battery technology.—
Siyu Huang,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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“Covertness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/covertness. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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