secret
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Four chicks hatched in the same secret location last year.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
His father agreed to sign, and for nine months they kept the secret he was playing quarterback.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Advice for a shocking family discovery: What would you do if you discovered you have secret siblings?
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan was the front-runner after last month's first informal vote, in which the council's 15 members, including the five with veto power, pass judgment in secret on the candidates.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
When she gets home that night, Joey draws pictures of everything—the fortifications, the secret tunnel, the barracks—and delivers her report to the guerrillas.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Their ventures were most successful when they spilled royal secrets, offering peeks behind the palace curtain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
At a DeepSeek meeting in May, some investors pressed founder Liang about whether he could make much money giving away secrets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"We're very good at keeping secrets, as our name says. Everybody doesn't need to know everything."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The phenomenon will present scientists with a rare opportunity to study the Sun's atmosphere and its outermost layer, as they seek to uncover secrets about solar winds and our star's magnetic field.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
He’d helped track down the spies who’d stolen American atomic bomb secrets during World War II. This new piece of film reminded him of that operation.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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