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incognito

[in-kog-nee-toh, in-kog-ni-toh] / ˌɪn kɒgˈni toʊ, ɪnˈkɒg nɪˌtoʊ /


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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

Meanwhile, Norwegian superstar Erling Haaland tucked his signature blond hair beneath a baseball cap to go incognito and visited Katz’s Deli in Manhattan for a pastrami sandwich.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

"Nobody had noticed she was here. She had managed to keep herself completely incognito," said Murdo, a postman in the Scottish Borders.

From BBC May 1, 2026

JetBlue is now walking back advice given to a customer via social media to search for fares in incognito mode.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 2026

“You need the most incognito job there is,” Cassiopeia declared.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

From Washington Post Jun. 1, 2015

He replied that, by courtesy, incognitos were sacred.

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

Upon the third day, however, there was noticed a mysterious figure, like the inscrutable incognitos sometimes encountered, crossing the tower-shadowed Plaza of Assignations at Lima.

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

Harold, Lara, Manfred, and a crowd of other characters, were universally considered merely as loose incognitos of Byron; and there is every reason to believe that he meant them to be so considered.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

It was a republic of incognitos: no one knew who anyone else was, and only the more ill-mannered and uneasy even desired to know.

From Varied Types by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton




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