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Recent Examples of smoke screen
The concern is that this might be a kind of smoke screen.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Any dignified motivations that had once held sway—making art for art’s sake, acting to minimize suffering—became smoke screens to distract others from my selfishness.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Moscow’s troops have also deployed old-age techniques like smoke screens, anti-drone cages, and more to keep their tanks safe.
—Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 June 2024
The celebrated institutions of democracy and transparency appeared to them as nothing more than smoke screens.
—Susanna Wing, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2012
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Any dignified motivations that had once held sway—making art for art’s sake, acting to minimize suffering—became smoke screens to distract others from my selfishness.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Moscow’s troops have also deployed old-age techniques like smoke screens, anti-drone cages, and more to keep their tanks safe.
—Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 June 2024
The celebrated institutions of democracy and transparency appeared to them as nothing more than smoke screens.
—Susanna Wing, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoke screen
Noun
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Taiwanese air force personnel standing in front of an armed F-16V fighter jet behind two Harpoon anti-ship missiles during a drill at Hualien Air Force base on August 17, 2022.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Each couple then goes on a five-minute speed date live in front of the audience.—
Ryan P. C. Trimble,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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While blinds and airy cotton curtains might look nice, blackout curtains that block sunlight from entering your room will be most effective at keeping things cool.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 June 2025
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To help cool your home, make sure window blinds and curtains are closed to help keep the sun's heat out.—
Julia Simon,
NPR,
24 June 2025
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In 2021, while working for Big Blue Box, Larson was put on probation in Dakota County for check forgery and theft by swindle for defrauding a previous employer.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
21 May 2025
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Five other felony theft by swindle charges were dismissed at sentencing, which was attended by several of the school’s administrators and staff.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
11 June 2025
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The hoax of further democratizing what was always implicitly democratic relies on sham logic.—
Armond White,
National Review,
27 June 2025
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The Balloon Boy hoax would seem to have all the right elements for a revisitation: a hapless, alleged victim (6-year-old Falcon Heene), sky-high danger (the balloon reached about 7,000 feet), daringly duplicitous parents (Richard and Mayumi Heene), and a national profile that gripped audiences.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
23 June 2025
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Criminals that are able to gain access to passwords put up for sale on the dark web are able to use them for identify theft, fraud, and even blackmail.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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The truth is that almost all the fraud, waste and abuse in the health care system comes from the billing and payment processes and skyrocketing prices, not from people who rely on Medicaid for essential care.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
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That yearning involves no duplicity or threats to others.—
Jay Tcath,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2025
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This duplicity and playing different patrons off of each other would be carried on by his political heirs.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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Despite the chicanery, this is a solid deal for a phone that isn’t wildly different from the Pixel 9.—
Janhoi McGregor,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Given the lawfare that tracks the uncertainty of our moral foundation, Henry Johnson is more pertinent than Oleanna, Mamet’s prophesy of the chicanery in the Me Too movement.—
Armond White,
National Review,
14 May 2025
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Harvard challenged the move, saying the president was attempting an end run around the temporary court order.—
Collin Binkley,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2025
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Kennedy’s end run around his department’s own experts is part of a pattern that threatens the proper functioning of science.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
31 May 2025
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“Smoke screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke%20screen. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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