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feinting

verb

present participle of feint

as in bluffing

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The plan for the stadium could still collapse; the Bears’ billionaire owners could be bluffing to secure an Arlington Heights deal.

— Gretchen Kalwinski, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
If the prover is bluffing, the verifier will almost certainly find a flaw in the coloring after enough guesses.

— Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2026

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The government views concealing information about a student’s gender identity, even to parents who may not be accepting of that information, as an interference with their rights as parents.

— Sofi Zeman July 1, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
The proud mom shared pictures of her and Green, 29, cuddling their little one in the hospital room, concealing the newborn's face in the snaps.

— Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026

Definition of concealing

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But some users find clever ways to sidestep those controls, by disguising sensitive requests as role-playing games, poems or pictures, with many swapping tips and ideas online.

— Kevin Schaul, Washington Post, 18 June 2026
For a Black man to reinforce those same stereotypes, while disguising them as objective commentary, is even more damaging.

— Brielle Miller, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2026

Definition of disguising

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As a result, the far right has polarized what should be a nuanced debate, in much the same way that some American conservatives turned masking into a form of political sorting.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Minutes after Iran played to a thrilling, though for Rezaeian and his teammates heartbreaking, 1-1 draw against Egypt, Rezaeian didn’t bother masking his pain.

— Sean Gregory, Time, 28 June 2026

Definition of masking

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This has become increasingly difficult, with professional players routinely simulating injuries and an offside rule that is interpreted to within fractions of an inch.

— Eric Zillmer, Scientific American, 26 June 2026
My research focused on simulating how special light waves interact in liquid crystals and using simple equations to approximate and understand those interactions.

— Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026

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