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The ducks were attracted by our decoys.
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Wooden tanks were used as decoys.
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The plane can release chaff or flares as a decoy.
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The perfect decoy—that was Dana. (source)decoy = something to trick others
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But Ender began to see how well the buggers used seemingly random flight paths to create confusion, how they used decoys and false retreats to draw the I.F. ships into traps. (source)decoys = something used for trickery -- especially to lure
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The leaders of the march had been decoyed to Ottawa for "official talks," and the whole kit and kaboodle had been stalled in Regina.† (source)
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I had assumed that it was empty, that it went up in the air as a decoy.† (source)
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The director said there would be three decoys.† (source)
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I looked over the paper, for I really did not know what he meant, but he took it from me and pointed out a paragraph about children being decoyed away at Hampstead.† (source)
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The anguish he had exhibited on the moor subsided as soon as ever he entered Wuthering Heights; so I guessed he had been menaced with an awful visitation of wrath if he failed in decoying us there; and, that accomplished, he had no further immediate fears.† (source)
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Do not be decoy'd elsewhere, That is the whistle of the wind, it is not my voice, That is the fluttering, the fluttering of the spray, Those are the shadows of leaves.† (source)decoy'd = tricked
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Harry took a look through it and saw that they were all still gathered around the Decoy Detonator.† (source)
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Those are decoys!† (source)
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I felt the risk I ran of being circumvented, blinded, decoyed, bullied, perhaps, into taking a definite part in a dispute impossible of decision if one had to be fair to all the phantoms in possession—to the reputable that had its claims and to the disreputable that had its exigencies.† (source)
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Her gentle efforts to guide the hand of destiny, by decoying her master with feeble tricks or by reticent considerations—these had not been strong enough to be recognized in the despotism of life.† (source)
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It could be a decoy.† (source)
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