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Synonyms & Antonyms for stealth
Synonyms: Adjective
backstairs, behind-the-scenes, clandestine, covert, furtive, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, private, privy, secret, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded
Antonyms: Adjective
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Examples of stealth in a Sentence
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The fox uses stealth and cunning to hunt its prey.Adjective
the SWAT team carried out a stealth raid on the house, which was believed to be harboring a terrorist cellRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Instead of building an aircraft and then incorporating stealth later, Lockheed’s Skunkworks started with a stealth design and built an aircraft around it—and their design found help in the most unlikely of places. — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, "Why the F-117 Nighthawk Is Such a Badass Plane," 12 Aug. 2019 What’s so incredible about them is that everything about them is designed for hunting — designed for stealth. — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, "Here’s a great way to see local bats and owls," 23 July 2019 And such an election, if one happens, will almost certainly change the underlying problem of British politics: namely, that Britain currently has a parliament that wants to halt Brexit and reverse the Brexit referendum by stealth. — John O'sullivan, National Review, "Brexit: The Rubik’s Cube of British Politics," 12 Aug. 2019 Hambleton describes the game as part experience, part dramatic episode, part escape room sleuthing, part stealth and part laser puzzle. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, "What it’s like to play the new ‘Doctor Who’ virtual reality game," 18 July 2019 Mike the Tiger moved through the water of his glassed-in enclosure with the elegant stealth of, well, a tiger. — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, "Millions watch video of Mike the Tiger 'stalk' LSU visitor. Then his caretaker pounced," 21 June 2018 That’s only the American lineage, but CNN — via doc producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, and HBO — compound the partiality by stealth, suggesting that movie history only means Hollywood (ignoring cross-cultural influence). — Armond White, National Review, "CNN Fakes Movie History as Well as the News," 5 July 2019 That’s fitting, because Sandman and his various bands were the sound of stealth. — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, "Twenty years after Mark Sandman’s death, a tribute to the ‘low rock’ maestro," 3 July 2019 In December 2011, Iran captured an American stealth drone operated from a base in Afghanistan, purportedly after an Iranian cyberwarfare unit commandeered it and landed it near the city of Kashmar in northeastern Iran. — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, "US acknowledges drone attack, denies it was in Iranian airspace," 20 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Treating people as This Type or That Type is a gateway to shame, and shame is the stealth enemy of empowerment. — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, "Time to speak up about school teaching different lessons on interactions with boys, girls?," 10 Sep. 2019 Treating people as This Type or That Type is a gateway to shame, and shame is the stealth enemy of empowerment. — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, "Carolyn Hax: Parent fears school’s lessons on #MeToo movement shares wrong message," 10 Sep. 2019 Treating people as This Type or That Type is a gateway to shame, and shame is the stealth enemy of empowerment. — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, "Carolyn Hax: Boys and girls deserve the same lessons about violence and consent," 9 Sep. 2019 The closed-quarter combat returns with some emphasis on stealth while the bigger change comes in the form of a drone buddy that follows Kait around. — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, "Review: ‘Gears of War 5’ uses past to set path for its future," 6 Sep. 2019 With his Metal Gear series, Kojima is credited with having helped to invent the stealth game genre, where avoiding encounters with the enemies is emphasized over direct combat. — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, "Hideo Kojima Explains 'Death Stranding' (Sort Of)," 23 Aug. 2019 At the dawn of the stealth age, the technology involved in making a plane nearly invisible to radar was mysterious and, to some critics, dubious. — Samantha Masunagastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, "30 years after the B-2 took flight, Northrop is applying lessons to a new stealth bomber," 21 Aug. 2019 Problems have cropped up with the tanker’s remote refueling boom and its potential for damaging the stealth properties of the F-35 and F-22. — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, "KC-46 tanker has been ‘frustrating,’ acting Air Force secretary says," 3 Aug. 2019 Medicine has become something of a stealth family-friendly profession, at a time when other professions are growing more greedy about employees’ time. — New York Times, "How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession," 23 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'stealth.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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