secret
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Hegseth is also said to be increasingly relying on a secret network of anonymous internet trolls to spread his message.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Law schools could use their antitrust curricula as a secret screening device to steer cynics and chiselers who accidently get through the door toward alternative professions such as telemarketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Last year, Parton said she had one song she couldn't talk about - it was still secret and buried in a vault in Dollywood, external, and will not be released until 2045.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Museveni's son, army chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has made no secret of his desire for the top job, announcing -- then retracting -- his intention to run multiple times over the years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
He’d lowered his voice enough that I had to lean in to hear him, enough to make it obvious that this was an important secret.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Their ventures were most successful when they spilled royal secrets, offering peeks behind the palace curtain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
She wasn’t the kind to keep secrets from her neighbors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
There is no confession and no announcement; Joyce simply comes to realise, as the secrets accumulate and the women's lives intertwine, that her idea of a monogamous marriage has been a sham all along.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The phenomenon will present scientists with a rare opportunity to study the Sun's atmosphere and its outermost layer, as they seek to uncover secrets about solar winds and our star's magnetic field.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
No matter how many times Molly tried to convince Clara that it was possible to create content without exposing all their secrets, she couldn’t get her sister to budge.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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