as in clandestinely
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Recent Examples of covertly
This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
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David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 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
But in true lesbian pulp tradition, and at a time when book bans, censorship and anti-LGBTQ sentiments are at a fever pitch, some will inevitably read this anthology covertly, concealed in closets or under the bed.
—Trish Bendix
august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
Russia covertly supported them with troops, tanks and artillery.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Companies like Meta that covertly profit from users' most intimate information must be held accountable.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025
The building’s landlords had sent agents and friends to dine covertly in its quest to find an anchor hospitality tenant with staying power, and everyone returned with rave reviews.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 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
But in true lesbian pulp tradition, and at a time when book bans, censorship and anti-LGBTQ sentiments are at a fever pitch, some will inevitably read this anthology covertly, concealed in closets or under the bed.
—Trish Bendix
august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
Russia covertly supported them with troops, tanks and artillery.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Companies like Meta that covertly profit from users' most intimate information must be held accountable.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025
The building’s landlords had sent agents and friends to dine covertly in its quest to find an anchor hospitality tenant with staying power, and everyone returned with rave reviews.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for covertly
Adverb
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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
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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“Covertly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/covertly. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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