How to Use confidential in a Sentence

confidential

adjective
  • She worked as a confidential secretary to the mayor for many years.
  • Her voice was quiet and confidential.
  • These documents are completely confidential.
  • Their talk is confidential, even from us, which is a bit of a cop-out.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The sources agreed to speak to The Times on the condition their names not be used because the search process is supposed to be confidential.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
  • The network said at the time that the women had requested the terms be kept confidential.
    CBS News, 28 Nov. 2024
  • To protect Google’s confidential data, many days of the trial will be closed to the public and media.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2023
  • If changes agreed to at last year’s COP stick, countries will be able to keep details about trades confidential.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Riley had been working as a confidential informant for the FBI at the time.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The law cites the need to keep confidential the identities of prison staffers who will be tasked to help carry out the execution.
    Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2024
  • More ways to submit confidential tips can be found at SunSentinel.com/tips.
    David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The specifics of the agreement are confidential, per attorney Tony Buzbee.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The operations team sends confidential emails to somewhere in the range of five to 10 hotels per away game to get bids for the necessary dates.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • The sources asked not to be identified as the directive was confidential.
    Reuters Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The A-list guest list is kept confidential until the night before the Met Gala, though fashion fans cast predictions based on years past.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • The votes are supposed to be confidential, but candidates sometimes learn about them through word of mouth.
    Bykatie Langin, science.org, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The three men met in person to discuss Golden-Gottlieb’s confidential complaint and ways to blunt it.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • One of them is that there is confidential information that just by virtue of being a part of a show that castmembers or crewmembers are privy to.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The home telephone numbers of police and prison workers would be kept confidential.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The research file which held the map was released this week as the maximum period of 75 years during which it could be held confidential had lapsed.
    Reuters, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Hall’s team claims that Oates’ team let Primary Wave see the duo’s joint business agreement, which was to have remained confidential.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • To use confidential mode, click the icon, set an expiration date and passcode.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The court battles, which are taking place out of public view, are shrouded in secrecy due to the confidential nature of the grand jury.
    Jonathan Karl, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • His attorney has said a payment was made to the women as part of a confidential settlement.
    April Rubin, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The service is free, confidential and available in English and Spanish.
    Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The changes under discussion were described by people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be named because the talks are confidential.
    Hannah Levitt, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The pair had reached a settlement in February over who should pay for the renovations, the details of which were kept confidential.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The confidential source bought pills from the defendant while DEA agents were listening, the documents said.
    Liam Reilly and Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Now, the two parties have resolved the dispute amicably in a confidential settlement, and Alapatt has returned the notebooks to Thompson.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Encryption And Access Controls: Secure backups with robust encryption and strict access policies to make sure data remains confidential.
    Nick Martin, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025

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