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To avoid making the batteries a target, Ukrainians are tight-lipped about their specific location and details of the measures in place to protect them from Russian attack, which include strategically placed air defenses.

They're tight-lipped, however, about larger career goals.

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Tung has been tight-lipped about his ascent to the country’s busiest circuit.

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Authorities have been tight-lipped about what role - if any - the suspect's politics played in the attack.

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In the small town of Korumburra though, where the Wilkinson and Patterson families are firmly rooted, the community has closed ranks around them, and remained tight-lipped during the media onslaught.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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