secretive
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Inside the secretive lab shaping America’s retail landscape: At a Florida lab few have ever seen, a team of researchers is trying to stave off a purported epidemic of shoplifting.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Reports of the Qualley-Antonoff split also come less than a week after Antonoff attended Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s lavish, but secretive, wedding bash in New York City sans Qualley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
More than 10,000 women, pregnant women, and girls passed through the secretive institutions, which were largely run by religious orders, from the 1920s until the 1990s.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Susquehanna itself lost $71.4 million by being caught on the wrong side of the options trades, it said in the lawsuit, offering a rare glimpse of a trading loss at the secretive options powerhouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
These were the same equations used by Wernher von Braun and seemed intimate, secretive, his domain.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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