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Recent Examples of smoke screen
The celebrated institutions of democracy and transparency appeared to them as nothing more than smoke screens.
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Susanna Wing, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2012
Understanding money will give us a sword to pierce through the smoke screen, a vehicle to reach the bottom of the rabbit hole, a lens to appreciate the economic reality of transactions, and a compass to guide choices and decision-making in healthcare and in general.
—Ge Bai, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
Former leaders who backed the theater project reject the charge as a baseless smoke screen for the new regime’s governance problems.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2023
This allows the tank to engage targets with high first-round hit accuracy, day or night, and even engage moving enemy targets through enemy smoke screens.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
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Susanna Wing, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2012
Understanding money will give us a sword to pierce through the smoke screen, a vehicle to reach the bottom of the rabbit hole, a lens to appreciate the economic reality of transactions, and a compass to guide choices and decision-making in healthcare and in general.
—Ge Bai, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
Former leaders who backed the theater project reject the charge as a baseless smoke screen for the new regime’s governance problems.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2023
This allows the tank to engage targets with high first-round hit accuracy, day or night, and even engage moving enemy targets through enemy smoke screens.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoke screen
Noun
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Past the mound and huddled behind the screen, pitching coach J.P. Martinez was joined by Webb, Verlander and Robbie Ray — one of several early indications that the accomplished front of the Giants rotation will be actively guiding the young pitchers who will comprise the rest of the group.—
Andrew Baggarly,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
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The front of the vehicle immediately lifted into the air, and like Preece said, the windy conditions – two delays came in this race from inclement weather – made the car lift off the track altogether.—
Scott Thompson,
Fox News,
17 Feb. 2025
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Use cordless blinds, and get any other cords out of reach.—
Shoko Wanger,
Architectural Digest,
12 Feb. 2025
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This fall, a Wisconsin duck hunter shot and killed one of several wolves that surrounded his blind.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
5 Feb. 2025
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He was convicted of financial card fraud in 1990, theft by check twice in 1990, two counts of issuing a worthless check in 1994, theft by check in 1994, four counts of theft by swindle in October 2002 and one count two months later.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Justin Ansel Butler falsified documents to make the Duck Donuts franchises in Woodbury and the Mall of America look profitable, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday in Washington County District Court charging him with felony theft by swindle.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
20 Jan. 2025
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After the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting where twenty elementary school children and six adults were killed, Jones claimed that the shooting was a hoax and the children were actors.—
Rochelle Eastman,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The hoax continued until 2019, when a close friend sent an anonymous tip to investigative producer Nancy Moscatiello, who spent five years unraveling the lie.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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Sunbeam ultimately filed for bankruptcy and the SEC sued Dunlap and other top executives for engineering a massive accounting fraud.—
Matt Schifrin,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Julie was given a seven-year prison sentence after initially being indicted in August 2019 on bank fraud and tax evasion charges.—
Ashley Hume,
Fox News,
20 Feb. 2025
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While scrutiny of public finance decisions is always welcome, outright duplicity regarding the city’s fiscal plan is a disservice to the residents and businesses that depend on critical infrastructure funded by municipal bonds.—
Pat Dowell,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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In her four years on Bravo, the baby girl of Summer House has experienced duplicity, vitriol, and audacity (sometimes all at once from Lindsay Hubbard), but that couldn’t have prepared her for the Peacock competition series.—
Zoë Haylock,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2025
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There will be years of political infighting, courtroom battles, and financial chicanery.—
Jeff Goodell,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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That access has been critical, because producers are now forced to cut away from replays faster to capture more of that line-of-scrimmage chicanery.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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Amazon tried to do an end run around this with its try-before-you-buy service where a customer could order up to six items, keep them for seven days to try on, then return the items not wanted.—
Pamela N. Danziger,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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In interviews, professors who specialize in bankruptcy said that the bonuses appeared to be an end run around Kennedy’s reforms.—
Bob Fernandez,
ProPublica,
17 Dec. 2024
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“Smoke screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoke%20screen. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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