sub rosa

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

“There is a lot of sub rosa sanctions enforcement going on with U.S. officials at State and Treasury and others,” Mr. Klingner said.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2020

One of Weinstein’s sub rosa retainers was an Israeli intelligence company called — no joke, Mr. Bond — Black Cube.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2019

All this is done quite in the day's work and "sub rosa," as they would get punished for leaving the trench like that in the daytime if it was spotted.

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various

Hijinks ensue, and schemes within schemes — including a rhino-saving project that somehow involves Persephone babysitting a rhino overnight; a sub-rosa jewel-trading venture; and some silly CIA business.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2021

“There is a lot of sub-rosa sanctions enforcement going on with U.S. officials at State and Treasury and others,” Mr. Klingner said.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 29, 2020

"There was this semi-secret, sub-rosa network of gay clubs we would go to," Prof Lockyer explained.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2017

Bachelder’s reliance on sub-rosa psychological churnings partly reflects his strengths as a novelist: he excels as an analyst of the anxieties that undergird social mores rather than as a dramatist of extravagant scenes.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2016

My father would not have believed in the possibility of sub-rosa vocations.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee