top-secret

Example Sentences

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“As someone who accompanied the prime minister on this historic trip, which was top secret until today, I can say that the prime minister was received in Abu Dhabi with a welcome fit for kings!”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

An Air Force intelligence report -- marked "top secret" -- from November of the following year features information on reported sightings of "unidentified aircraft" and "flying saucers."

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Army hatched a top secret plan to conceal hundreds of missile launchers on rail lines hidden beneath the thick ice sheets of Greenland.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

Prosecutors accuse him of illegally transmitting top secret information about US national defence using his personal email and other messaging apps.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

“I realized how many men had died because those pages had been stamped top secret and because generations of bureaucrats like me kept them secret,” Ellsberg said.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin