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From there, they are forced to deal with an aging group of matriarchs (June Squibb, Annette O’Toole and Marceline Hugot) who covertly run the town—not to mention the cold and calculating brothel manager Enid (Margo Martindale).—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025 -
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
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To boost their morale, Washington had the play clandestinely produced for his troops at Valley Forge during an especially bleak winter.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Until the early 1970s, the Ojibwe continued to mine small pieces of pipestone at Ozhaawashkonaagwad clandestinely.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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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
Adverb
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If some have surreptitiously slipped into the cart, throw them under the (school) bus.—
Catharine Kaufman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Sep. 2025
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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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“Collusively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collusively. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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