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Trojan horse

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Definition of Trojan horse

as in Potemkin village

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The Swedish government has come up with some drastically different economic figures on Russia that make the Kremlin’s official data seem like a Potemkin village.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 24 May 2026
But when Microsoft built the Potemkin village that is Copilot and charged for it, well, no thank you.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 Feb. 2026

Definition of Potemkin village

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Under the Assad regime, the parliament functioned as a ceremonial fig leaf that served political elites and passed laws that stripped ordinary Syrians of their basic rights.

— Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2026
Consider the crisp, Gimlet-like Mediterrânico, made with sea fennel and eucalyptus, or the Banana Bonanza, a riff on the Negroni with Madeira, banana, coconut butter, and fig leaf.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2026

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Each panel is different, their subtly shifting shapes recalling those of the shuttle’s heat-shield tiles.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Lily sacrificed her life on that day to protect wee Harry, just a baby at the time of her death, with a love shield.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2026

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In Obsession’s most horrifying sequence, the audience senses something awful is about to unfold several beats before the frenzy of blunt-force head trauma actually takes place on screen.

— Chris Lee, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
Egypt’s interior ministry said the screen belonged to an advertising firm that had a contract with an international company.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026

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Jackson’s blind was situated on rolling private farmland, and late that afternoon a fawn deer strolled down a mountain trail toward Jackson shortly before nightfall.

— Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2026
Corso sets up in the blind and points the scope across the water at a neon-pink bouquet of Greater Flamingos ballet-dancing along the far edge of the lagoon, while grebes dive, avocets wade, and egrets and herons hunt in the foreground.

— Alexandra Marvar, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026

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