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Recent Examples of smoke screen
Whether there is any fire behind this week’s apparent smoke screen of a meeting, or if Francis is even thinking about resigning is unknown to perhaps but a few of his closest allies, and probably not even them.
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Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Optional features include smoke screens, thermal night-vision and electromagnetic pulse protection.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2025
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
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Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Optional features include smoke screens, thermal night-vision and electromagnetic pulse protection.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoke screen
Noun
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On the production front, Micron excels in advanced DRAM nodes, including the early sampling of 1-gamma DRAM using EUV.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Aaron Glenn stood in front of a crowd of reporters, Jets staffers and former Jets players at his introductory news conference as the franchise’s new head coach and announced to the world that things were going to be different with him in charge.—
Zack Rosenblatt,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Setting decoys, crafting a blind and getting ready to hunt together, Crowson and I were in our element.—
Scott Haugen,
Outdoor Life,
18 Dec. 2025
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Why don’t small-town police ever close their interrogation-room blinds?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
16 Dec. 2025
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From her minimum security lockup, she’s begun mounting her own social media blitz in a seeming attempt to win Trump’s favor and get sprung from prison and freed from accountability for her epic swindle.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
10 Dec. 2025
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While Yusuf was found guilty of six counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle (over $35,000) in August by a jury, the decision was overturned by Judge Sarah West in November, according to KARE.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
1 Dec. 2025
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At first, the ceremony — performed publicly before the entire parish — seems like a hoax.—
Natalia Winkelman,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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The incident came two weeks after police had responded to Lake Brantley High School for an unverified threat that was determined to be a hoax.—
Silas Morgan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 Jan. 2026
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Broderick asked whether the government picked the five states first and then did research into whether there were fraud claims there.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Jan. 2026
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According to the indictment, Brett Rosen also regularly used the site to defend himself against accusations of fraud and market manipulation at least as early as 2021.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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Despite his layered duplicity, Jonathan understands and defines himself by courting risk.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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Morgan Freeman’s Thaddeus shows up, still twinkling with duplicity.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
11 Nov. 2025
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But even as skeptics label Strategy and the DAT model as a house of cards built on financial chicanery, others view them as early leaders in an emerging category of crypto banks.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
3 Dec. 2025
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The tale away from the playing field in recent years has been dizzying, one of soaring costs and debts, of quirks and chicanery unseen elsewhere.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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With the aid of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team, Trump appears to be attempting an end run that could succeed where his past attempts failed: by simply terminating the consulting contract that the Department of Energy relies on to develop and enforce the rules.—
Peter Elkind,
ProPublica,
30 Dec. 2025
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More specifically, the Trump administration has been doing an end run around the Constitution by misinterpreting the IEEPA, critics from legal groups across the ideological spectrum claim.—
Henry Gass,
Christian Science Monitor,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Smoke screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke%20screen. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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