clandestine
Example Sentences
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They set up clandestine camera monitoring from a public location.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
Sen. Frank Church of Idaho – held extensive hearings that included eye-opening testimony about clandestine U.S. intelligence activities abroad and domestically.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026
Indeed, the world’s most high-stakes clandestine cat-and-mouse game is currently taking place in the race for artificial-intelligence supremacy.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026
He helps nations rise and fall, but he’s very clandestine.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
Alchemy, as a clandestine enterprise, could never develop a community of the right sort.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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