secrets

Example Sentences

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Since the mass online release, secrets buried for decades were suddenly just a simple search away.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

This is a cat and mouse — or cats and mice — melodrama, with customized stock characters given dark secrets and backstory traumas less as explanation than complication.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Chinese spies are posing as recruitment agents to trick UK government and military staff into disclosing state secrets, MI5 has warned.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Archaeologists working on the “Greek Desk” uncovered Nazi secrets, sabotaged enemy infrastructure and helped prepare for D-Day.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

It was so still, and dark enough to hold all the city’s secrets.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler