incognito

As Merryl Goldberg relates in her account of the adventure, “Notes of Deception,” written with the intelligence historian Vince Houghton, she and her friends were traveling incognito.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

But Colatarci’s sister, then a high-school senior, wasn’t incognito when she set out on a quest for a prom dress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Sugar came to Earth as part of a group of “thousands,” mixing among humans incognito just to observe them, for benign alien reasons, like Starship Enterprise on its five-year mission.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Some ships have also transited Hormuz undetected: There have been reports that some ships have turned off their GPS-like signals and transited incognito, either for safety or because they are part of so-called shadow fleets.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Because he lacked a good map, the cable spanning the river also remained incognito.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Around this time, chef Melfi spotted us — we were no longer incognitos.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015

Sooner or later the fellow would gather that he had been befooled, but, provided that we preserved our incognitos, that did not matter.

From Berry And Co. by Dornford Yates

But all is now lost; I know not who he was; and this estimable author must needs share the oblivious fate of all literary incognitos.

From Redburn. His First Voyage by Herman Melville

He replied that, by courtesy, incognitos were sacred.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

But Jove himself, as everybody knows, was much addicted to incognitos, and so was his terrene representative, the Emperor of Austria.

From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach