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This year, Mind the Gap, a secretive Silicon Valley donor group supporting progressive candidates, is also sending donors their way, according to Vox.
A NONPROFIT WITH TIES TO DEMOCRATS IS SENDING OUT MILLIONS OF BALLOT APPLICATIONS. ELECTION OFFICIALS WISH IT WOULD STOP.BY JOSHUA EATON, LAUREN ROSENTHAL AND THY ANH VOOCTOBER 23, 2020PROPUBLICAThese arachnids are usually secretive, and almost all you meet are neither aggressive nor dangerous.
SHOULD I KILL SPIDERS IN MY HOME? AN ENTOMOLOGIST EXPLAINS WHY NOT TOLGBTQ-EDITOROCTOBER 22, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSThe review process is highly secretive, but according to the Washington Post, the panel has launched dozens of investigations this year alone, aimed primarily at companies that received investment from China or Russia.
HOW THE SECRETIVE CFIUS BECAME A POWERFUL WEAPON IN THE TRADE WARSJEFFOCTOBER 19, 2020FORTUNETheir plans by all estimations have remained very secretive.
WHAT’S BEHIND THE BADGE THAT POWERS GOOGLE’S LOCAL TRUST LAYER?JUSTIN SANGEROCTOBER 13, 2020SEARCH ENGINE LANDAfter a somewhat lackluster beginning to his professional running career, Farah and his family moved to Oregon early in 2011 to join the secretive Nike program based at the Beaverton world headquarters.
INSIDE A SECRET RUNNING PROGRAM AT NIKE AND A WIN-AT-ALL-COSTS CORPORATE CULTURERACHEL KINGOCTOBER 6, 2020FORTUNEThe largely secretive group marries Andean folklore and Hebrew Bible lessons, borrowing from both ancient Inca practices and the Ten Commandments.
AMERICAN FRINGES: HOW THE MEDIA MAKES IT WORSENICK FOURIEZOSSEPTEMBER 7, 2020OZYPegasus is the blockbuster product of NSO Group, a secretive billion-dollar Israeli surveillance company.
INSIDE NSO, ISRAEL’S BILLION-DOLLAR SPYWARE GIANTTATE RYAN-MOSLEYAUGUST 19, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWHow could she be at the same time both cruel and tender, both true and false, frank and secretive, spiritual and sensual?
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODHe was a secretive man who shared no secrets with his neighbors if he could help it, yet whose very idiosyncrasies betrayed them.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMONDHe was still in no hurry, but he grew cautious now, and secretive.
THE RANGE BOSSCHARLES ALDEN SELTZERWORDS RELATED TO SECRETIVE
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- in ambush
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- unacknowledged
- under false pretense
- under-the-table
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- close-mouthed
- cold
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- undemonstrative
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- cold
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- diffident
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- eremitic
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- gentle
- icy
- inhibited
- mild
- misanthropic
- modest
- noncommittal
- offish
- peaceful
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- quiet
- reclusive
- restrained
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- elusive
- foxy
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- guileful
- illusory
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- intriguing
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- sharp
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- slick
- smart
- smooth
- sneaky
- stealthy
- subtle
- surreptitious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhand
- unscrupulous
- wily
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