sub rosa
Example Sentences
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Ed Newton, a Philadelphia-based photographer, entered the sub rosa world of the ramp hunt when he set out with several foragers this spring.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
But she also has, beneath the top layers of this Christmas story she was asked to make by Oscar-winning auteur Alfonso Cuarón, her own sub rosa meanings.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2023
The backbiting — and the sub rosa efforts to thwart their own president — led to constant personnel turnover, a dreary parade of firings, resignations and defenestrations.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022
But Poor can also claim a quirky bit of sub rosa fame, and when he revealed it over dinner that night, I nearly fell out of my chair.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2022
Oh the treason of Benedict Arnold was better Than the scoffing at Love, and then sub rosa wooing; This mocking at Beauty, yet wearing her fetter— Alack and alas for such bachelor doing!
From Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas)
