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secrecy

[see-kruh-see] / ˈsi krə si /


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Despite their elaborate efforts at secrecy and unaccountability, Flock works through government contracts.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

It also didn’t transmit its position, according to flight trackers, secrecy that would have afforded the president some protection.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 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

Dhesi also hit out at the secrecy surrounding the breach and said the length of the super-injunction "imposed serious costs on accountability and trust".

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

After swearing Abdulrahman to secrecy, Ahmad brought him up to the roof and showed him a cage he had built from scrap wood and chicken wire.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

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

He never would follow the individual soul into its secrecies; he was concerned with man only as a fragment of humanity.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

Can she not whisper the white secrecies which words discolour?

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod

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




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