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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The administration's emphasis on the drop in inflation is just a smokescreen to divert attention from rising unemployment.
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The rumors were a smokescreen for their own illegal activities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All a casual but effective smokescreen , neatly blurring our back trail.
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Britain's nuclear power programme began with a lie: it was a smokescreen for the nuclear weapons programme.
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He was just firing a smokescreen of emotive words and phrases.
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The legal advice is part of a smokescreen being put up to hide its intentions and its concern.
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The Strasbourg smokescreen will be different.
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Unconsciously they create a smokescreen of confusion as a defence against the fear of being taken over.
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Why did he have to be manipulated to admit what he genuinely believed, regardless of the political smokescreens.