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Recent Examples of smoke screen
Yet others have theorized that the MSG buzz could be an elaborate smoke screen to throw off attention to the couple's real wedding plans.
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CBS News,
27 June 2026
Yet others have theorized that the MSG buzz could be an elaborate smoke screen to throw off attention to the couple’s real wedding plans.
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Kimberlee Kruesi,
Fortune,
27 June 2026
And, while the smoke screen of the war is going on, China is ramping up their activities.
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Morgan Chittum,matthew J. Belvedere,
CNBC,
14 Mar. 2026
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CBS News,
27 June 2026
Yet others have theorized that the MSG buzz could be an elaborate smoke screen to throw off attention to the couple’s real wedding plans.
—
Kimberlee Kruesi,
Fortune,
27 June 2026
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
See All Example Sentences for smoke screen
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoke screen
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Los Angeles was back in front by the end of the third via a run-scoring single by Max Muncy and Alex Call’s sacrifice fly to right.
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Larin was standing directly in front of Xhaka and got hit byXhaka's cleat after the Swiss captain went to kick the ball.
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In some position groups — receiver, tight end, edge rushers, cornerback and safeties to be specific — the blind is leading the blind because there is no veteran presence in those rooms.
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The large slats of shutters might be easier to vacuum than those of mini blinds or even cellular shades, so make a plan based on your window blind type and style.
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In a case pending in federal court in Oakland, California, three Facebook users allege that the company profits from online swindles at the expense of users.
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Supporting characters add to the plot, as Chance needs help from his former crew, most of whom have gone straight but can’t resist the lure of the swindle.
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By probing his triple role as author, anthropologist and cult leader, the book asks why Americans hunger for seductive spiritual hoaxes.
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The Little Rock Zoo briefly stopped admitting visitors on Friday morning while authorities investigating a bomb threat that was found to be a hoax.
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Kidan pleaded guilty in 2005 to fraud and conspiracy related to the purchase of a fleet of gambling boats, and in 2006 he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison.
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Google also said the devices were used for ad fraud and other digital crimes.
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But honesty doesn’t always save a career, and duplicity doesn’t always sink one.
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Molloy rages to his film crew, and Lestat’s duplicity plants a wedge between the vamps.
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There’s a tremendous amount of financial chicanery that goes on in 2026.
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Not many people, however, concluded that financial chicanery at executive level should be used as a stick with which to beat the players and coaches who had won those trophies over the years in question.
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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.
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This isn’t an end run around a manufacturer with a virtual monopoly in fab.
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“Smoke screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke%20screen. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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