trade secret
Example Sentences
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His manager showed him the folder that contained the precious trade secret, before locking it away once more.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Intellectual property concerns have landed India on the 'Priority Watch List', for which the report cites weak patent protections and a lack of trade secret laws.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025
Actor Samuel L. Jackson revealed a trade secret from Bruce Willis that the actor says kept him sane during his five-decade career in Hollywood.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2025
We appealed that to the attorney general, and the attorney general ruled in our favor that this was not actually a trade secret and forced the police to reveal this information.
From Slate • Feb. 22, 2024
Pejorative term employed by members and adherents of the GNU project to describe the act of holding software proprietary, keeping it under trade secret or license terms which prohibit free redistribution and modification.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
