secrecy
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It is unacceptable that a public institution already so clouded in secrecy either chooses to or must rely on a private consulting firm.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
The dispute highlights a longstanding conflict between government secrecy and the public’s right to know.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
These deals have been shrouded in secrecy with the number of people deported -- and the countries taking them -- not been made public.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
"This offending thrives in secrecy online and behind closed doors. It is the job of the criminal justice system to bring it out into the open to deliver for victims and survivors."
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
To have any chance of leaving Riverbank, they would need powerful allies—and they would have to work in absolute secrecy.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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
I would not part with these secrecies for all the satchels in Oxford Street.
From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
She did not yet understand the inflexible secrecies of genius.
From Tongues of Conscience by Hichens, Robert Smythe
He returned to his home in Coburg, exchanging, once for all, the momentous secrecies of European statecraft for the tittle-tattle of a provincial capital and the gossip of family life.
From Queen Victoria by Strachey, Lytton
She had a natural taste for secrecies, and practised them now, as he bade her do, without any perception of the humiliation which they involved.
From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
