secretive
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This scrap of unscripted conversation is one of the few glimpses into a highly secretive relationship.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
The love he once had for baseball he now felt for a strange and mysterious place that was as old as history itself yet as secretive as the classical ciphers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
The company already announced a surprising acquisition earlier this year, purchasing the secretive AI audio startup Q.ai.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
The group drew data from hundreds of North Korean escapees and several media outlets that maintain networks of sources inside the secretive nation, where there is no independent media and little international presence.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
These were the same equations used by Wernher von Braun and seemed intimate, secretive, his domain.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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