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

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

“I don’t buy eggs in Malta,” he confessed, with an air of slight and clandestine amusement that was the only departure from industrious sobriety Yossarian had ever seen him make.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller