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It's an open secret that he's been cheating on his wife.
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Blazy arrived at Bottega after a nearly 20-year career as a deputy at work in the shadows, a secret weapon who had become an open secret.
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Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
South Korean companies faced with U.S. bureaucratic delays and murky regulations have long sent employees to the U.S. under various short-term visa programs, and many view it as unfair that this practice — an open secret for more than a decade — is only now being cracked down on.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2025
For the better part of a decade, Beijing’s approach to digital copyright was an open secret: grow at all costs.
—Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
This was an open secret, reported at the time and arising even in Moyers’s documentary.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
South Korean companies faced with U.S. bureaucratic delays and murky regulations have long sent employees to the U.S. under various short-term visa programs, and many view it as unfair that this practice — an open secret for more than a decade — is only now being cracked down on.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2025
For the better part of a decade, Beijing’s approach to digital copyright was an open secret: grow at all costs.
—Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
This was an open secret, reported at the time and arising even in Moyers’s documentary.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Open secret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20secret. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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