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anonymity

[an-uh-nim-i-tee] / ˌæn əˈnɪm ɪ ti /


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Requesting anonymity to comment on an ongoing investigation, the security official called the case "complicated and confusing", but that authorities would eventually announce who had launched the strike.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

The filmmakers offered each various options of anonymity depending on their level of comfort.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Victims of sexual offences receive lifelong legal anonymity unless they waive their right to it.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

“We would try to talk about human rights defenders in talking points, only to have them struck,” said one former bureau employee, requesting anonymity for fear of retribution.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

“Now then, I’m afraid I’ll be needing your memory of this whole encounter. You see, we at Discreet Deliveries take pride in our customers’ anonymity.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Director Clair uses anonymities for his leads; Actor Raymond Cordy was a taxi-driver a year ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Presumably because of the libel laws, Cross confines his harsher remarks about the House of Commons to anonymities.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am not quite so pleased to get these anonymities, I must confess, as I am to get a clean, tall editio princeps of The Orphan or of Love for Love.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

I remember doing just the same thing once when I came home from school and had an exciting story to tell, with preservation of anonymities.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George

Down in the tanks inside the hull were a few luckless anonymities with search-lights, put there to watch for leaks from loose rivet-heads.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry




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