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What is a smokescreen?

What is a smokescreen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
  2. Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.
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It's another smokescreen to cover earlier learned assurances that the Australians were a bunch of pie eaters.
Sieuraj knocked Government's push for the passage of the police reform bills which he described as public relations tactics and a smokescreen.
Happily, the spy flick trappings are a mere smokescreen for the film's clever satire of Middle American society and Cold War paranoia.
Massive write downs under the smokescreen of a new CEO will only demonstrate the old guard's failings and bring their tenure into question.
I do find, because I work alongside lots of other artists and producers, that pretense could be a smokescreen for insecurity.
What the transition from pounds and pence to euros and cents does is to provide a convenient smokescreen for a hike in prices.

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