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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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Well, that’s kind of what the National Institutes of Health is now proposing—concealing from applicants the scores that their grant application receive from scientific peer review.

— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Amazon, Google, Meta and Elon Musk’s xAI all have demanded nondisclosure agreements with local governments, concealing their identity and intent until deals are almost done.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026

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Lancôme’s Teint Idôle Ultra Wear All Over Concealer offers buildable, natural-looking coverage that can camouflage melasma, sunspots, and other hyperpigmentation without masking your skin entirely.

— Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 14 Aug. 2026
Written and executive produced by Chandler Baker and executive produced by Susannah Grant, Discretion is a legal thriller about a summer associate Lenny (Fanning) at a prestigious Dallas law firm who uncovers a web of NDAs masking a dark truth.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of masking

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However, that process would require a lot of extra work for scrapers that currently just pull down the raw HTML source code of billions of webpages as plaintext, without going to the trouble of simulating a browser’s rendering pipeline.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
In addition to simulating the dispersal of defense production, Taiwan is throttling the island’s mobile network to show civilians what happens when internet services are disabled.

— Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026

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