secretive

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Appeared in the January 17, 2026, print edition as 'There’s a Hit Movie Set Deep Inside a Secretive AI Lab'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

Secretive traditional rite-of-passage ceremonies see boys aged between 10 and 17 spending up to six months in seclusion in the bush.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2024

And spotting physical similarities and shared personality quirks can be revelatory and fun, said Peter J. Boni, the author of Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2023

Secretive politicians predate the smartphone age, heaven knows, as do many who employ baroque means to conceal their words and actions from the voters they serve.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2022

Secretive and unfriendly, she fished alone, avoided company, answered few hails, and, seldom filling her hold, disposed of her catch as her needs required, in out-of-the-way ports, often as far south as Charleston.

From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Robertson, Morgan