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verb

past tense of mask
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of masked
Adjective
Last Sunday morning, four masked criminals stole several priceless pieces from the Louvre's crown jewels collection after breaking into a gallery soon after the museum opened. Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025 The violations of these individuals’ rights, often by masked, heavily armed and unidentified agents needs to stop. Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
By 2025, Gallup reported Democrats regaining a slight edge in party affiliation, but this masked deeper fractures as internal polls showed growing liberal extremism, with bases demanding purity tests on social issues that repelled moderates. Nafees Alam, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025 Having masked federal officers in our streets creates terror and chaos in our streets. Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for masked
Recent Examples of Synonyms for masked
Adjective
  • The gender nonconformity of the protagonists—all thinly disguised versions of Lee—is often obvious but never explicitly mentioned.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Fifteen superfans will walk around with disguised pre-release Pixel hardware.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Explosive devices can be unpredictable, easily triggered, hard to detect or camouflaged.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Beyond the housing units that concealed this bloody event, a truck rumbled along the road, a basketball bounced, children squealed, the sounds foreign, from another world.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Prosecutors also alleged Friday that between December 2024 and September 2025, Blain destroyed or concealed city communications that were public records subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act.
    Susan Gill Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Throughout a two-hour concert with a 41-song setlist, The Weeknd transformed the 69,000-person venue into an apocalyptic land in the ruins of a city inhabited by cloaked figures.
    Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Nikitović took inspiration from old Westerns to dress Hart, wanting to introduce him like a mysterious, cloaked cowboy emerging from the desert.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The driver then gets out and walks toward the back end of the truck, which is obscured from the camera by the tree.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The seafloor had once been obscured beneath a thick ice shelf, but that changed in July 2017 when the massive A68 iceberg calved from the Larsen C Ice Shelf.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But the day remained gray, shrouded, and sullen.
    Joel M. Vance, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Founded in 1982, The property features 18 rooms, seven cabins, a spa, dining porch and wine cellar on 250 acres perched on a nearly mile-high ridgeline with mist-shrouded, forever views of the rolling hills.
    Suzanne Wright, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • These shaded nurseries are the perfect place for young saguaros to mature.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Each of its 18, double-story villas has a private pool, a shaded courtyard, and a veranda that looks out across the waterways into the dense teak forest.
    Marion Miller, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Nature and Faith He captures Lithuania (where Drizyte grew up and where her parents still live) in the freezing winter, too, with images shot on the Curonian Spit when it’s covered in snow.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Such remediation costs may be covered by the tenant’s renter’s insurance policy, or perhaps by your own policy.
    Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025

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“Masked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masked. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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