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Recent Examples of clandestinely
To boost their morale, Washington had the play clandestinely produced for his troops at Valley Forge during an especially bleak winter.
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R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Until the early 1970s, the Ojibwe continued to mine small pieces of pipestone at Ozhaawashkonaagwad clandestinely.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 14 Aug. 2025
R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Until the early 1970s, the Ojibwe continued to mine small pieces of pipestone at Ozhaawashkonaagwad clandestinely.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clandestinely
Adverb
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This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Just last year researchers using similar brain imaging methods found that one in four behaviorally unresponsive patients was covertly conscious.—
Andrew Chapman,
Scientific American,
31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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By the episode's end, however, he's set his sights on Morgan, having surreptitiously slipped a note into her grocery bag.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Sep. 2025
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Inevitably, a few students were surreptitiously checking smuggled screens that day.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Clandestinely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clandestinely. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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