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  • verb Present participle of camouflage.

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Examples

  • In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.

    Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010

  • In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.

    Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010

  • In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.

    Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010

  • In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.

    Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010

  • In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.

    Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010

  • In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.

    Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010

  • In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.

    Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010

  • This tendency – which might be called a type of impersonation, a kind of camouflaging of the writer's authority and hence his responsibility – can be seen throughout Ishiguro's work, and goes hand in hand with his most persistent themes: the fear of disorganisation and abandonment; the psychical aftermath of childhood; and the relationship between the institutional and the personal through which these themes are frequently dramatised.

    Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2011

  • The last thing she had done, before they had slipped away from the Keeper™s apartment the night before, was work a “masking” spell, a kind of camouflaging of her presence.

    The Irda Baker, Linda P. 1995

  • Natives of India are extraordinarily good at "camouflaging" improvised surroundings, for they have been used to doing it for centuries.

    Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

  • The neurodivergent tactic of masking (also known as camouflaging) has recently become better recognised, especially amongst women and girls (Attwood, 2007; Hendrickx, 2015; Egeskov, 2019).

    Olfactory Overload: Knowing the Neurodivergent Nose Eva Surawy-Stepney 2023

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