COLLUSIVELY Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

collusively

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as in covertly

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Because submarines can operate covertly for extended periods, additional missile capacity can give commanders greater flexibility while keeping the launch platform difficult to detect.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
Anthropic feared that these researchers were covertly using Claude to create bioweapons.

— Kate Rooney,Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of covertly

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Because Iran is a theocratic dictatorship that routinely arrests and in some cases executes journalists, Western reporters hoping to cover the country must either work clandestinely or submit to government supervision.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026
Soon afterward, social media commenters were speculating about whether Sierra broke into the office or was caught clandestinely shredding documents.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026

Definition of clandestinely

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Fro-yo heads will tell you, conspiratorially, that Butterfield Market is rumored to have the same supplier as Forty Carrots, the café tucked away on the seventh floor of Bloomingdale’s which claims to have introduced frozen yogurt to New York City some fifty years ago.

— Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
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

Definition of conspiratorially

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There has been a string of alarming incidents in which swarms of rogue AI agents have hacked online platforms such as Hugging Face and surreptitiously communicated with one another on message boards.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
In June, Wilder resident Tyler Cain filed a tort claim against the city, alleging the city’s three Flock Safety cameras were acquired surreptitiously and outside the measure of the law.

— Noah Daly September 2, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of surreptitiously

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