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Indeed, students spoke furtively of the dark arts of circumvention.

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I spotted one man with a hammer and a flashlight looking furtively around my son’s neighborhood.

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Bingeing can look different for different people, but for Specter, it involves “shoving food furtively into my mouth as quickly and passively” as possible, she writes.

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Some at the top of the Labour Party are beginning to think, if a little furtively, of the aftermath of 4 July, too.

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As the men entered her home, Ms. Mukantaganda said her husband, a preacher, prayed for her and their two small children and furtively told her where he had hidden some money in case she survived.

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