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The problem with using that example to argue that the West has been too cautious in Ukraine is that U.S. support in Afghanistan in the 1980s was designed to be plausibly deniable.—Michael Poznansky, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2025 The charisma seems more deniable 96 years later, but in fairness, this is probably due to subsequent, edgier interpretations and the, ahem, countless parodies of Lugosi’s Dracula, including Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024 Iran has been wildly hamstrung in the past six months, as its war with Israel, usually in the shadows or deniable, evolved into high-stakes and largely ineffective long-range missile attacks.—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024 Multiple security officials across Europe describe a threat that is metastasizing as Russian agents, increasingly under scrutiny by security services and frustrated in their own operations, hire local amateurs to undertake high-risk, and often deniable, crimes on their behalf.—Tara John, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for deniable
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