anonymity
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A law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing case, said Ali’s account was accurate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Speaking on condition of anonymity, one club official said: "It benefits everyone for this to be resolved as quickly as possible."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
FamilyMart boasts a network of more than 16,000 stores across Japan, and roughly 30 percent of them are short-staffed, a company spokesman told AFP on condition of anonymity on Monday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
“So much of the history of art is the anonymity of women, whether she’s a Madonna, Venus or a nude bather,” says art historian Katy Hessel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
After all, she was just another poor black woman struggling in anonymity to raise her children in the slums of Durham.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Presumably because of the libel laws, Cross confines his harsher remarks about the House of Commons to anonymities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Director Clair uses anonymities for his leads; Actor Raymond Cordy was a taxi-driver a year ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I am not quite so pleased to get these anonymities, I must confess, as I am to get a clean, tall editio princeps of The Orphan or of Love for Love.
From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse
It is the rendezvous of expiring illusions, the gathering place of the anonymities which utilize man, beasts and plants.
From Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath by Wallace Smith
I remember doing just the same thing once when I came home from school and had an exciting story to tell, with preservation of anonymities.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
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