Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Trojan horse
Noun
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Only Alain seems eager to ignore the disinformation and embrace this Potemkin village as the real deal (except when his eyes show a gathering concern).—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025 -
But his proudest accomplishments amount to little more than a progressive Potemkin village.—
Paul Vallas,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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His leadership team began weighing whether to offer Democrats a stand-alone vote on the expiring Obamacare subsidies around a week after funding lapsed, something Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) rejected as a fig leaf.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
21 Oct. 2025
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The fig leaf conditional nature of the requirement makes little difference.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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To better understand how these storms can wreak so much havoc, our research team created simulations to show how storms interact with Earth’s natural magnetic shield and trigger the dangerous geomagnetic activity that can shut down electric grids.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
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The head shield, all of those tiles on the bottom, would be stripped off.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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That’s the problem New York entrepreneur Brynn Putnam — the woman who sold her last company, Mirror, to Lululemon for half a billion dollars — set out to solve with Board, a tabletop console designed to make screens social again.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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Wear neutral clothes underneath, and use face paint or markers to draw a digital mouth or screen for an instant retro robot.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Step 7: Dust Window Treatments Clean the windows and window treatments by dusting or washing blinds or curtains, according to their care instructions.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
26 Sep. 2025
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By the mid 20th century, the humble blind was yet another subject ripe for innovation as manufacturing techniques evolved.—
Hannah Martin,
Architectural Digest,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Trojan horse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Trojan%20horse. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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