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Adverb
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The company claimed to be hunting for evidence that Musk was covertly funding its critics.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026 -
Mohan advocates for his care and attempts to covertly give the patient free supplies.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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The audio recordings, shared by outlets including VSquare, Frontstory, Delfi Estonia, the Insider, and the Investigative Centre of Jan Kuciak, seem to have been clandestinely gathered.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Apr. 2026
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Many of them, like Lavrov, had to leave clandestinely because getting out with Russian permission is nearly impossible.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
22 Mar. 2026
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That Hanson so could faithfully and conspiratorially convey that in her naturalistic, uncontrived images came from a place of friendship.—
Mark Holgate,
Vogue,
5 Sep. 2025
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Katas wan't recording in the front seat, so Christine, seated beside the wives in the back, surreptitiously pulled out her phone to record Bateman.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Apr. 2026
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Trump may have also relieved pressure on Democrats to surreptitiously help one of the Republicans to leap ahead, so as to avoid a 1-2 GOP outcome.—
Dan Walters,
Oc Register,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Collusively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collusively. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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