clandestine
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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
The U.S. leader made no mention of ongoing Mexican enforcement efforts that have seen large-scale seizures of illicit drugs, destruction of clandestine laboratories, and the arrests of scores of cartel operatives.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
And his conduct in providing clandestine instructions to Adams’s cabinet undermined the constitutional authority of the executive branch in ways that would have landed him in jail in modern times.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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