secrecy
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It also matters how a company responds to a scandal once it’s caught in one, he explained, saying that most blow the moment by choosing secrecy over transparency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Despite their elaborate efforts at secrecy and unaccountability, Flock works through government contracts.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Joe Biden's 2023 visit to Ukraine was also shrouded in strict secrecy during a long journey by plane and train, though he was accompanied by a reporter and photographer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
I'd seen photos of specimens, but perhaps the details of just where exactly they came from, or what they looked like when they were found was kind of shrouded in secrecy.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The fine point was: The secrecy that had bound them all until now was apparently broken.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Once the eye gets used to the quirks and secrecies of his inimitable shorthand, it discovers how deeply regional an artist he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pray heaven it hath not only stolen back, and hidden again in thy high secrecies, oh tree!
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
No man could rest calm under that glance; no man could forbear the attempt to decipher the hidden secrecies of its message, and no man could succeed in the task.
From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett
With all his faults, his poses, his superficialities, his secrecies, his egotisms, I never dreamed of him as aught but a loyal and honourable gentleman.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
We have been stripped of our secrecies and of our private hoards.
From Christine by Alice Cholmondeley
