concealment

1
as in hiding
the placing of something out of sight your choice of the oven for the concealment of the money was unwise

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2
as in hideout
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others cave-riddled mountains that offer a multitude of concealments where a fugitive could hide indefinitely

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Noun
  • Although scout spies can be costly, players can refill them by finding hideouts scattered around the world.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Agents of Sabotage is no different, adding meaningful upgrades with a new hideout in the Darnell Bros Garment Factory.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But the team hypothesizes the fungus lures the spiders out of their lairs where they are exposed to circulating air currents, which helps spread its spores, said Araújo, who is also an honorary research associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the United Kingdom.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The story sounds like something right out of a horror movie: this fungus hacks the brain of its host, driving the normally shy spiders out of their lairs and webs to an exposed surface.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 2 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For example, calcium and vitamin D play major roles in insulin resistance and secretion.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 6 Feb. 2025
  • This form of avian flu is spread through saliva, nasal secretions and feces of infected birds.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Turtles likely remember magnetic conditioning for a much longer duration, Goforth noted, since most loggerheads leave their nesting beach as hatchlings and return around 20 years later to lay their first nest.
    Julianna Bragg, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
  • His son, John, 18, and daughter, Elizabeth, quickly returned to the nest.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
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