surreptitious
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A surreptitious airport catering truck secretly shuttled Trump to a waiting military plane, which flew him out instead.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
On the job, I did my share of surreptitious video-watching and Twitter-scrolling and e-commercing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
The move comes as Shell faces scrutiny after his Paramount bosses hired a law firm to investigate his surreptitious dealings with Cipriani, a self-styled “fixer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
A surreptitious change of bank details does not bode well for your mother’s estate planning.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
Thanks to the surreptitious prayers of the women and children, as he himself admitted, he was alive and well and in full possession of his faculties, including his sense of humor.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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