secretive
Example Sentences
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The mission was the culmination of months of secretive planning—and a series of mixed signals—that allowed the U.S. to preserve the element of surprise, even though the attack at times seemed inevitable.
At the opposite extreme is secretive adoption, which unwittingly keeps innovation underground.
From Barron's
While U.S. labs are secretive, Chinese companies publish their research to prove they can compete despite inferior hardware, said Barrett Woodside, an AI entrepreneur in San Francisco who previously worked at Nvidia.
They are huge and secretive, and their influence on Wall Street and Main Street is only growing.
“None of this was secretive, and all of it was aimed at benefiting Saks and the brands,” she said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
