clandestine

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The panel also criticised the club's "deplorable approach in its use of junior members of staff" to "conduct the clandestine observation".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Amid all the cleanup, little official attention has gone to the growing number of clandestine graves that groups of persistent, family-funded search teams have found in recent months.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

In travel news this week, United Airlines said it was ending its clandestine pursuit of rival American after American rebuffed its advances.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The first trial over his death was annulled last year following revelations that one of the judges took part in a clandestine documentary about the case.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 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