secrecy
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He previously said the plans had been "veiled in secrecy" and that the process did not guarantee public participation "beyond a narrow list of statutory bodies".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
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
Greystone Mansion carried an air of secrecy in itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Despite their elaborate efforts at secrecy and unaccountability, Flock works through government contracts.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Penelope wondered if it was a desire for secrecy that had prompted Miss Mortimer’s choice of restaurant, and not just an appreciation for ferns—but she did not have to wonder for long.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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
They stood on the edge of the courtyard with all its indifferent pigeons struggling for a living, oblivious to the intricacies, secrecies and colossal egotisms of the men who passed into the House.
From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton
We have been stripped of our secrecies and of our private hoards.
From Christine by Alice Cholmondeley
So it was done; I in their delicate fellowship was one— Drew the bolt of Nature's secrecies.
From The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson
Surely it would carry him on, away from the old reserves, from the secrecies which had held him too long, from the darkness in which he had labored.
From The Way of Ambition by J. H. Gardner Soper
