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Recent Examples of stealthiness
But what surprised me most about these curls was the stealthiness of the burn.
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Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
Giljov’s stealthiness paid off with a stunning image of two male saigas going horn to horn on the banks of a lake during a competitive breeding season.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2025
Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
Giljov’s stealthiness paid off with a stunning image of two male saigas going horn to horn on the banks of a lake during a competitive breeding season.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stealthiness
Noun
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Cruz also pressed his Democratic colleagues to join a bipartisan request for the DOJ to turn over the evidentiary basis for the subpoenas, arguing transparency was necessary to assess whether the secrecy orders were justified.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Jan. 2026
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For years, Maryland’s sprawling nonprofit sector has operated behind a veil of secrecy that state leaders praise publicly but struggle to explain under scrutiny.—
Gary Collins,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Jan. 2026
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This brand of cream cheese got lots of love for its smoothness and creaminess.—
Catherine Jessee,
Southern Living,
4 Jan. 2026
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The variety of body types and shapes shown here, often covered in very little, is a reminder that despite the smoothness of the people held up as worthy of admiration on Instagram, most people’s bodies and faces have lumps and bumps and creases and crinkles.—
Catherine Bray,
Variety,
17 Dec. 2025
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Ay, the superb slyness of that last response!—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Ron’s crusade against corporate shadiness (and shoddiness) never generates much suspense.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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Atlanta’s Bijan Robinson is one of the most difficult backs to bring down, with his speed and shiftiness.—
Nicki Jhabvala,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Vue’s combination of shiftiness with the ball and the ability to win the ball out of the air against opponents of any size, Manson said, is rare to find in any player — a combination of technical excellence and soccer smarts.—
Andrew Cornelius,
Twin Cities,
15 Sep. 2025
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The scientists found that the slipperiness did not depend on the speed, suggesting that frictional heating — which should increase with speed — isn’t what makes ice slippery.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Dec. 2025
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That slipperiness, and Scorigamis more broadly, have been the subject of deep study over the past year.—
Josh Levin,
The Atlantic,
5 Dec. 2025
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And Ten Hag’s training ground shrewdness was meant to correct that.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Stealthiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stealthiness. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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