stealth tax
A stealth bomber was detected in the city's airspace.
It was the world's first effort to build the world's first stealth aircraft.
The jet combines supersonic speed and a radar-baffling stealth technology.
The investigators utilize stealth tactics to blend into the environment.
People were ignorant of the stealth mining of their personal data by political groups and corporations.

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stealth | American Dictionary

stealth
noun[ U ]
us/stelθ/
movement that is quiet and careful in order to avoid notice, or secret or indirect action

stealthily

adverbus/ˈstel·θə·li/

stealthy

adjectiveus/ˈstel·θi/
a stealthy burglar

Examples of stealth

stealth
Clearly, when this type of music is heard (by stealth?) in appropriate audio-visual contexts, it is digested without difficulty.
Is it formally 'business friendly' while 'doing good by stealth' - or is it in the pockets of financial capital?
Such is the transformation by stealth of modern social care.
On the other hand, many vehicles have a 'stealth' characteristic that prevents them from being detected by radar.
The range of policy areas compatible with a stealth welfare approach is limited by its very nature.
As a type it is modest, but it has subversive intent - the infiltration of suburbia by stealth, increasing density without loss of garden space.
This might have simply been collected from another site or acquired by aggression or stealth.
This is very useful, since the density cavitons can reveal the trace of a 'stealth' vehicle.
Despite the apparent success of these stealth welfare programs, limits exist to their potential applicability.
For example, one might be interested in segmenting stealth fighter jets from both conventional radar signals and also infrared images.
For example, it is unlikely that stealth welfare programs could replace state pension programs.
Its successor for better or for worse is likely to prevail only through revolution or by stealth.
In so doing, we will resist the new hegemony of reductive 'managerial' professionalism which would contain us, and which has crept in by stealth.
Recently, there have been attempts to alter the systemic pharmacokinetics o f polyplexes by surface modification with hydrophilic polymers, to produce 'stealth' vectors.
Broader applicability of the stealth welfare strategy suggests a systemic restructuring of how welfare policy is conceived.
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