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Discover LudwigThe phrase "smokescreen for" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to intentionally create a distraction or diversion to disguise one's true intentions. Example: The politician's supposed concern for the environment was just a smokescreen for his real agenda of promoting his family's business interests. In this example, the politician is using environmentalism as a cover or smokescreen for his true goal of promoting his own financial interests.
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Some observers believe that the appointments are a strategic ploy, a smokescreen for co-opting middle and right elements.
Or a smokescreen for cuts?
It turned out to be a smokescreen for military preparations.
Or perhaps the "vision" always was a smokescreen for cuts.
Beijing believes that concept is merely a smokescreen for independence.
But really this is a smokescreen for Ukip's backers' intentions.
Manners are sometimes nothing more than a convenient smokescreen for arseholes.
Camp 1: Apple's withdrawal is a smokescreen for Jobs being ill again.
But outsized fears about our kids' prospects may be a smokescreen for a deeper concern.
Johnson said the decision was looking like "a smokescreen for a U-turn on Heathrow".
"White phosphorus is a weapon intended to provide a smokescreen for troop movements on the battlefield.
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