cloak-and-dagger
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The cloak-and-dagger operation might seem excessive, but there are a few billion reasons for the paranoia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025
It’s a pale substitute for the delicious tension inherent to deadly cloak-and-dagger exploits.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025
It involved allegations of financial impropriety at the top of the Vatican, cloak-and-dagger activity of the kind that has often characterised the secretive world of the Holy See.
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2023
Jackson’s love of these soaps runs deeper than the cloak-and-dagger plots and mustache-twirling villains.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2023
Now he put his cloak-and-dagger skills to work at the Three Lions, where a state-of-the-art security system and the hotel’s unique triangular shape allowed him to keep a constant eye on anyone approaching the building.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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