as in cloaked
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as in camouflaged
to change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity
the spies disguised themselves as harmless tourists
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as in concealed
to keep secret or shut off from view
that investigative reporter usually does a good job of disguising her true motives for interviewing a person
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disguised
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Officers uncovered the remains of four monkeys, identified as bushmeat, concealed among other items.—
Andy Biggs,
Newsweek,
25 Dec. 2024 -
The octopus’ position on the board is concealed, playing cards to bluff about their location, and sneaking around the board trying to grab its food.—
James Palmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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City Council member Shahana Hanif, whose Brooklyn district includes the mosque, and the Democratic Socialists of America chapter of New York City, among others, also chimed in on social media to express their disgust with the masked man’s rhetoric.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
22 Feb. 2025
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Thompson was shot multiple times by a masked gunman, who then fled the scene on a bike.—
Liam Quinn,
People.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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Upload another holiday album full of pictures where her left hand is hidden or obscured.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
27 Dec. 2024
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But it has been largely obscured by the perpetual closeness of statewide elections here, and the fact that Democrats have been winning them more often than losing them.—
Craig Gilbert,
Journal Sentinel,
23 Dec. 2024
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The experiments were conducted in a wind tunnel that simulated hovering flight conditions, with researchers focusing on accurately discerning wind directions during tethered flapping.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Dec. 2024
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Depending on the intensity, duration and sequence of those vibrations, sensations such as being tapped, stroked or squeezed can be simulated.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
23 Dec. 2024
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Those subsidies became more generous under the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 to ensure more Americans were covered during the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025
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Drugs administered by doctors such as oncologists or rheumatologists are paid by another Medicare program, called Part B and aren't covered by the cap.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Today’s Nakasendō is often more of an idea than a physical route, at times indistinguishable from modern roads.—
Hannah Walhout,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2025
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And to him attention is indistinguishable from will because that ability to focus is the essence of will.—
Sean Illing,
Vox,
1 Feb. 2025
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Caspar suppressed his urge to respond.—
Brandon Taylor,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2025
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Ukrainians are uncovering their country’s culinary history – and how its distinctive features were suppressed by the authorities during Soviet rule.—
Howard LaFranchi,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Social Security’s internal workings are so recondite and poorly understood by average voters that numerous possible ways of imposing benefit cuts or otherwise harming the program are hiding in plain sight.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Nov. 2024
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In retrospect, the integer distance problem was waiting for mathematicians who were willing to consider more unruly curves than hyperbolas and then draw on recondite tools from algebraic geometry and number theory to tame them.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
1 Apr. 2024
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“Disguised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disguised. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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