as in covertly
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Adverb
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Despite the disruption, some Iranian oil shipments appear to be continuing — often covertly.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026 -
In recent years, Tehran’s digital warriors have impersonated American activists online to covertly encourage protests against Israel on college campuses.—
David Klepper,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2026
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Under Cuba’s penal code, people who clandestinely enter Cuba to commit terrorism can be punished by death or life in prison.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2026
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The group was largely defeated in 2019, but some elements still operate clandestinely in Syria and Iraq.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
25 Feb. 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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Slipping surreptitiously from documentary to drama, the story of Junyi, a Catalan of Chinese decent, and his embrace of his roots, moved by the singular draw of family history, and with that a multi-cultural identity.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
10 Mar. 2026
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Her appearance culminated a season of surreptitiously entering the stadium.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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