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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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Well aware of the sprawling privacy implications of ubiquitous personal recording devices, Xu is careful to position Plaud devices as professional tools, not gadgets made to surreptitiously capture dinner table conversations.—
Iain Martin,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Could only participate, if surreptitiously, in this long-overdue cumulation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Clandestinely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clandestinely. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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