cloak-and-dagger
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By evening’s end, a frazzled Ventura senior citizen — during a cloak-and-dagger assignation — had uttered a secret code to a person who claimed to be law enforcement, then handed him $25,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
This time, however, President Santiago Peña Palacios will save Lai’s team the trouble of logistical cloak-and-dagger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
It’s a pale substitute for the delicious tension inherent to deadly cloak-and-dagger exploits.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2025
The 19th-century cloak-and-dagger tale, written by Alexandre Dumas, has lived countless lives onstage and onscreen, with stars including Charlie Sheen, Charlton Heston, Milla Jovovich and even Barbie resurrecting the classic tale of the Kings guard.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
We played a cloak-and-dagger game, passing notes in books and such.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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