Thesaurus results for SMOKE SCREEN

smoke screen

noun

Definition of smoke screen

as in front

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Recent Examples of smoke screen And, while the smoke screen of the war is going on, China is ramping up their activities. — Morgan Chittum,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2026 Their smoke screens covered many square miles and needed fewer people to operate them. — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026 The exposure of political smoke screens The uprising also exposed manufactured alternatives. — Kazem Kazerounian, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026 Another thing worth noting is that there are plenty of smoke screens that emerge from the winter meetings. — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for smoke screen

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Noun

Fifth-year cornerback Jaden Mickey made some big stops, including a pass breakup, while the defensive front produced four sacks for 37 yards and seven tackles for loss.

— Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 25 Oct. 2026
Tampa Bay still led 4-3 when Rasmussen left the game, but the Rays made too many mistakes to stay in front.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of front

Noun

Corso sets up in the blind and points the scope across the water at a neon-pink bouquet of Greater Flamingos ballet-dancing along the far edge of the lagoon, while grebes dive, avocets wade, and egrets and herons hunt in the foreground.

— Alexandra Marvar, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
The second installation attempt for the large blind was successful.

— Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of blind

Noun

Upon joining, the young employees typically get assigned to a unit, each designed around a specific literary swindle.

— Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 13 Oct. 2026
Eventually, the great hip-hop swindle gets out of hand, and threatens to break up Billy’s relationship with longtime sweetheart Mary (Lucy Halliday).

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of swindle

Noun

Matthew Unglesbee, a 36-year-old resident of Quincy in southwestern Illinois, was charged with violations related to false information and hoaxes and mailing threatening communications.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
Schools banned its use, and journalists were shamed for credulously repeating its hoaxes.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of hoax

Noun

That these sort of games, with their duplicity, hypocrisies and teary moments of tenderness, are popular is beyond question, and that is certainly how viewers are invited to watch.

— Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
David Sacks, former tech investor and White House AI and crypto czar, has an excellent counterpoint that could explain the apparent duplicity of Dario's manifesto.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of duplicity

Noun

Most importantly, no more need for gas nor the treasonous chicanery plotted by the president and an enemy.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
This is accomplished with the aid of a dead vagrant, a false identity, a commandeered submarine, and tons of other chicanery.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of chicanery

Noun

Now the federal government has launched a voucher program by making an end run around state legislatures.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Castaneda, Marshall writes, made an end run around the department’s Yaqui expert, with the other committee members overly impressed by his au courant melange of fieldwork and gauzy ruminations, despite the fact that his timelines and grasp of mycology didn’t make sense.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026

Definition of end run

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