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Noun
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Amid mass reticence, An Unfinished Film is an essential yet incomplete outlet for unprocessed trauma.—
Yangyang Cheng,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025 -
Given the vast competition of the open internet, the cost of bringing in new visitors, and the reticence of traditional businesses to trust the web over radio and TV in those early days, sustainable ad dollars proved hard to come by.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
26 Sep. 2025
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The act of subterfuge was particularly common in the 2000s, amidst America’s unpopular foreign policy and the country’s invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.—
Vivian Song,
CNN Money,
18 Sep. 2025
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The trial was a kangaroo circus packed with sophism, subterfuge, and courtroom chicanery.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Just like her music, every note earns its place, and the silence between them is just as intentional.—
Hali Bey Ramdene,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 Oct. 2025
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Marcel Marceau became a global sensation with his signature character Bip the Clown, his expressive silence and artistic mastery transforming mime into a respected art form.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Ay, the superb slyness of that last response!—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Their lives were based on concealment and pretense, and my writing is the opposite.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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As Kraus left the interview at the news station, police in Albany arrested him on two counts each of second-degree murder and concealment of a corpse.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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Atlanta’s Bijan Robinson is one of the most difficult backs to bring down, with his speed and shiftiness.—
Nicki Jhabvala,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Vue’s combination of shiftiness with the ball and the ability to win the ball out of the air against opponents of any size, Manson said, is rare to find in any player — a combination of technical excellence and soccer smarts.—
Andrew Cornelius,
Twin Cities,
15 Sep. 2025
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The firm’s SeaShark 600 stealth USV is designed for near-shore ISR, attack, and swarm roles.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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The developers sprinkle puzzle elements into some dungeons while also adding moments where stealth is more useful and efficient than brute force.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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And yet a new revolution precipitated by the betrayals of an older uprising ought to prompt us to view what is now unfolding in Nepal, despite its appearance of promise, with at least a modicum of wariness.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Patients are sharing this wariness.—
Gary Drenik,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Furtiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/furtiveness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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