stealthy
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The seamless integration of old and new feels stealthy, and a touch subversive, a doubling-down on the museum’s approach to time as nonlinear, sinuous and delightfully slippery.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Out of fear of repercussions, many women - and even men - are opting for what they call "stealthy feminism".
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
The showrunner of the Angeles National Forest isn’t a 500-pound black bear or a stealthy mountain lion.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
The rule serves an important purpose, the judge said, in preventing stealthy takeovers on the cheap.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
He lay tossing and turning and listening fearfully to the stealthy night-noises: wind in chinks of rock, water dripping, a crack, the sudden rattling fall of a loosened stone.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing stealthy
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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