How to Use in secret in a Sentence
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Virginia’s dad, too busy to show up for her, used to hire a cameraman to film her school recitals in secret.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
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So, yes, the project had moved forward in secret, but most people in Jay didn’t seem to care.
—Ethan Brooks, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
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An Afghan woman journalist filmed these scenes for us in secret.
—CBS News, 6 Sep. 2026
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The project was made in secret and is set to be released in theaters in October.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
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Instead, dabble in secret love affairs, or explore avenues in travel, medicine, the law and publishing.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2026
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The grand jury had been meeting in secret and returned the indictment on July 20.
—Austin Turner, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
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The grand jury, which had been meeting in secret, returned the indictment on July 20.
—Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
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The singer-songwriter and actress, 58, and the rapper, 57, tied the knot in secret in 2024.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
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Denise has written a novel in secret, about a frustrated housewife itching to leave her husband and kids for a rich, fulfilling life in New York.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2026
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It’s all designed to bring food lovers, cultural enthusiasts and fashionistas together in secret.
—Richard Guzman, Daily News, 6 July 2026
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The film, which A24 will release theatrically in October, had been made largely in secret over three years.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
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Kissinger said his goal was to solidify international successes that had been accomplished in secret.
—USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
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On March 20, 1969, the couple exchanged vows in secret at the British Consulate in Gibraltar.
—Alyssa Modos, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
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Their enshrinement was carried out in secret by Yasukuni’s head priest in 1978, three years after Hirohito last prayed at the shrine.
—ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
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Filmed largely in secret over three years, the nearly three-hour doc is an inside view of Holmes’ final weeks before going to prison, then mutates into reenactments and mind-bending twists that meld reality and performance.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
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Parton addressed the speculation that she was covered in secret tattoos during a May 2014 appearance on Today.
—Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 27 Aug. 2026
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In December 1995, the world's two most famous people met in secret at New York City's Carlyle Hotel.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 16 July 2026
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Someone who believes powerful elites routinely operate in secret may be more receptive to broader conspiracy narratives such as QAnon.
—Art Jipson, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
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The lawsuit argues that after those negotiations failed, David and his son Eli then went ahead with a restructuring to accomplish the same but in secret, without Herb’s knowledge or approval.
—Kirk Ogunrinde, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
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The grand jury, which had been meeting in secret, returned the indictment on July 20, and it was unsealed Wednesday, when 32-year-old Nick Reiner entered a not guilty plea.
—Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
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The company discovered in July that rogue AI agents had schemed in secret to break out of the virtual sandbox created to contain them, infiltrating the open internet and hacking a private company.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
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Some practitioners, particularly in modern Druidry’s early decades, have maintained that their tradition is a direct continuation of the ancient druids’ religion, one that had been preserved in secret over two millennia.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
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Such proceedings take place in secret, with prosecutors presenting evidence and questioning witnesses without any ability for defendants’ attorneys to challenge their narratives.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
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Escorted in secret by police under the cover of darkness, the millennium-old Bayeux Tapestry finally arrived to London’s British Museum on Friday.
—Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Docker moved in a different direction with its MCP Catalog and Toolkit, containerizing servers and wrapping them in secret management, policy enforcement and audit logging.
—Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
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That relationship ultimately became the engine behind Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, a 31-track album recorded in secret over six years and conceived as a singular work of art rather than a conventional commercial release.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 19 Aug. 2026
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Repeat releases and readmissions, known as rebookings, typically happen in secret and circumvent federal rules and regulations, according to eight legal experts interviewed by ProPublica.
—Mario Ariza, ProPublica, 27 Aug. 2026
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In the second-season finale, some time after Aemond had killed Rhaenyra’s son Luke, Alicent arrives in secret to Dragonstone to barter Aegon’s life in exchange for peace, and safety in particular for her daughter (and Aegon’s wife) Helaena.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
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Yet in this astounding new film from Nathan Fielder (‘The Rehearsal’ and ‘The Curse,’ NYFF61) and Lance Oppenheim (‘Primetime’), created in secret over the past four years, Holmes becomes an entirely different kind of camera subject.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026
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