incognito
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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
—Use incognito or private browsing mode, which prevents cookies from persisting between sessions and makes it harder for sites to recognize you as a returning visitor, though many sites have tracking mechanisms other than cookies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
However there are concerns about how incognito mode could hide AI malfunction or abuse.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
In the afternoon of her first day in Chicago, Tuesday, June 6, the infanta had slipped out of her hotel incognito, accompanied by her lady-in-waiting and an aide appointed by President Cleveland.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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 Melville, Herman
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 Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
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 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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 Melville, Herman
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