anonymity
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"The West is losing the argument over recognition," says a former senior UN official who requested anonymity because they continue to work in Afghanistan.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“This has more red flags than a May Day parade,” an industry insider said, speaking on condition of anonymity so as not to jeopardize his professional relationships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"Two of them have already undergone surgery," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Victims of sexual offences are granted automatic anonymity but Mellissa and Nikita have both waived their rights so they can share their story.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
On reflection, anonymity sounded like a fine idea to me, and I said, “Do you think I could enter anonymously? That would be all right with me.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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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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Down in the tanks inside the hull were a few luckless anonymities with search-lights, put there to watch for leaks from loose rivet-heads.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
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 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
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"I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen
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