secretive

Example Sentences

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Turkmenistan is one of the most secretive countries in the world.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

"This is the person who needs to be punished. He made a conscious decision to do this - a secretive decision."

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Losing his job at the same time as he incurred $22,000 in debt over a secretive sports-card trading business may just be bad timing, but I can’t help feeling like the two events are related.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

Given the scale of Beijing’s financial and policy support and the secretive nature of some of these programs, it’s safe to say mastering fusion has become China’s Manhattan Project.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Following HERO'S arrest, they had stopped recruiting Soviet informers under orders from James Jesus Angleton, the secretive and paranoid CIA chief of counterintelligence.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau