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Recent Examples of backstairs And in North Carolina, a boyish trial lawyer with jury-pleasing charm (John Edwards) knocked off Lauch Faircloth, a GOP senator who played a backstairs role in getting Kenneth Starr appointed as independent counsel. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
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Adjective
  • The Gestapo, Hitler’s secret police, combed the Poles’ ranks in search of men with experience in clandestine resistance organizations.
    Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
  • Alongside the harbour in Lerwick are five fishing boats, once part of the clandestine Anglo-Norwegian Shetland Bus mission, and the wartime cargo ship Hestmanden.
    Heather Farmbrough, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Samuel French, a Texas actor on the rise who portrayed the undercover FBI agent CJ Robinson in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, has died.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
  • Pisano has been with the show since his 2021 debut as undercover officer Detective Joe Velasco.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • This would suggest pockets of water in deep underground aquifers.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 12 May 2025
  • Earlier this year, researchers announced the discovery of a brick underground aqueduct in Slovakia.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • That includes Tom Cruise, as covert CIA division agent Ethan Hunt, riding a motorcycle off a 4,000-foot cliff and BASE jumping the final 500 feet of a ravine, or the breathless climactic train mayhem in 2023’s Dead Reckoning, the opening installment of this two-parter.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
  • In an opinion piece published by the Venezuelan independent newspaper La Razón, former lawmaker Omar González Moreno recounted the covert mission that freed him and four others without a single shot being fired.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Domin encouraged residents to contact school district officials with ideas to work on private partnerships.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 13 May 2025
  • But her time in public service became entangled with a private business.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025

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“Backstairs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backstairs. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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