under the guise of
idiom
: by saying or acting as if something is other than what it really is
She swindles people under the guise of friendship.
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Gomez and Escobar, then 16 and 17 years old, met the victims on April 11, 2017, and drove them to a park in Central Islip under the guise of smoking marijuana together.
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
With nearly all of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees confirmed, GOP senators are eyeing personnel decisions to be placed under the guise of Cabinet secretaries that would largely bring an end to DOGE’s gutting of government agencies.
—Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Feb. 2025
To stop hateful ideologies from spreading, social media companies cannot let extremism flow freely under the guise of free speech.
—Elliott Broidy, Baltimore Sun, 25 Feb. 2025
Civil rights advocates believe these measures represent a systemic rollback of rights and diversity practices that generations fought to secure and could accelerate a national shift toward exclusion based on race under the guise of immigration enforcement.
—Deborah Omontese, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2025
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
With nearly all of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees confirmed, GOP senators are eyeing personnel decisions to be placed under the guise of Cabinet secretaries that would largely bring an end to DOGE’s gutting of government agencies.
—Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Feb. 2025
To stop hateful ideologies from spreading, social media companies cannot let extremism flow freely under the guise of free speech.
—Elliott Broidy, Baltimore Sun, 25 Feb. 2025
Civil rights advocates believe these measures represent a systemic rollback of rights and diversity practices that generations fought to secure and could accelerate a national shift toward exclusion based on race under the guise of immigration enforcement.
—Deborah Omontese, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2025
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