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Recent Examples of behind-the-scenes From Murphy’s instincts as a casting visionary to Palmer’s action-hero transformation and Davidson’s reflections on learning from one of his idols, the conversation is full of candid moments and behind-the-scenes gems. Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Aug. 2025 Peter Jackson used to release these three-hour behind-the-scenes films alongside [the movies]. Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025 New behind-the-scenes additions since then include Ferrell’s long-time collaborator Chris Henchy; Harper Steele, who starred with Ferrell in his Netflix documentary Will & Harper; as well as David Gordon Green and Andrew Guest. Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025 On Monday, with Berry absent, the behind-the-scenes tension over the upcoming vote boiled over in a rare, heated confrontation in committee. Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for behind-the-scenes
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Adjective
  • Never enter sensitive, confidential or proprietary company information into public AI tools like ChatGPT.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has been building a secret stock position with special confidential treatment for two quarters in a row.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Party leaders could reveal what their rivals were cooking up and reporters could penetrate clandestine deal-making through sources.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Nic Carter, a crypto venture capitalist, then coined the term Operation Choke Point 2.0, referring to an Obama administration clandestine operation to debank undesirable industries including firearms dealers and payday lenders in the early 2010s.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In the 2021 film, Odenkirk (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) stars as Hutch Mansell, a by-the-numbers working stiff who harbors a secret past as an off-the-books government assassin.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • But after Superman dealt with Lex Luthor endangering the planet by building his own pocket universe, Peacemaker’s secret hideaway becomes the central plot point of these new episodes.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • He is aided by Yasir Abbas, a weapons specialist; Raghuveer Singh, a sniper who served in Kashmir and Tawang; Uday Bhan, an explosives expert; and Sukhbir Singh, an Indian agent undercover in Pakistan posing as a Karachi stockbroker.
    Time, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Wednesday’s hearing before Magistrate Judge Shannon G. Elkins in downtown Minneapolis focused on several motions from Eichorn, including one to drop the charges and for the defense to be able to call the undercover officer who posed as a 17-year-old girl to testify.
    Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Constructed from 1933 to 1934 to house Nashville's main post office, it was restored to its original splendor through a public/private partnership campaign led by Dr. Thomas F. Frist Jr. and his family.
    Jennifer Brett, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Mitchell Leff/Getty Images When receivers and quarterbacks took a trip out West before training camp for private workouts, Nabers was a part of the action.
    Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In it, deaf canteen employee Alison Brooks (Rose Ayling-Ellis) lands an under-the-table gig as a covert lip reader for the police and finagles her way into the apex of an upcoming heist operation.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Reports have long suggested that Iran has increasingly engaged in covert malign behavior to target foreign citizens.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • Members of the Edinburg Fire Department rescue a man trapped in an underground septic tank on a rural property in Texas.
    Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Tunneling too close to the river could risk breaching the water table and filling a karst formation, or underground cave — potentially triggering leaks of construction materials into the waterway.
    Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Behind-the-scenes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behind-the-scenes. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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