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secretive

[see-kri-tiv, si-kree-] / ˈsi krɪ tɪv, sɪˈkri- /


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Appeared in the January 17, 2026, print edition as 'There’s a Hit Movie Set Deep Inside a Secretive AI Lab'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

Secretive internet vigilantes have made it their mission to fight climate change denial on Twitter.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2023

And spotting physical similarities and shared personality quirks can be revelatory and fun, said Peter J. Boni, the author of Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2023

Adam Lashinsky is a former executive editor of Fortune magazine and the author of “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2023

Secretive, sensitive, she takes a wound Deep to her soul, as if the sense had swooned, And not a thought of vengeance had survived.

From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George




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