sub rosa
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That exists sub rosa everywhere, with VIPs—meaning anyone awash in money or followers—afforded bowing and scraping not extended to the average customer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
But she also has, beneath the top layers of this Christmas story she was asked to make by Oscar-winning auteur Alfonso Cuarón, her own sub rosa meanings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
“There is a lot of sub rosa sanctions enforcement going on with U.S. officials at State and Treasury and others,” Mr. Klingner said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2020
One of Weinstein’s sub rosa retainers was an Israeli intelligence company called — no joke, Mr. Bond — Black Cube.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2019
"Of course Mr. Harley understands that all this is sub rosa," said Mr. Goodnight, looking severely at the correspondent.
From The Candidate A Political Romance by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
Hijinks ensue, and schemes within schemes — including a rhino-saving project that somehow involves Persephone babysitting a rhino overnight; a sub-rosa jewel-trading venture; and some silly CIA business.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2021
“There is a lot of sub-rosa sanctions enforcement going on with U.S. officials at State and Treasury and others,” Mr. Klingner said.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 29, 2020
"There was this semi-secret, sub-rosa network of gay clubs we would go to," Prof Lockyer explained.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2017
Bachelder’s reliance on sub-rosa psychological churnings partly reflects his strengths as a novelist: he excels as an analyst of the anxieties that undergird social mores rather than as a dramatist of extravagant scenes.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2016
My father would not have believed in the possibility of sub-rosa vocations.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
