Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hole-and-corner
Adjective
  • Party leaders could reveal what their rivals were cooking up and reporters could penetrate clandestine deal-making through sources.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Nic Carter, a crypto venture capitalist, then coined the term Operation Choke Point 2.0, referring to an Obama administration clandestine operation to debank undesirable industries including firearms dealers and payday lenders in the early 2010s.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Members of the Edinburg Fire Department rescue a man trapped in an underground septic tank on a rural property in Texas.
    Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Tunneling too close to the river could risk breaching the water table and filling a karst formation, or underground cave — potentially triggering leaks of construction materials into the waterway.
    Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In it, deaf canteen employee Alison Brooks (Rose Ayling-Ellis) lands an under-the-table gig as a covert lip reader for the police and finagles her way into the apex of an upcoming heist operation.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Reports have long suggested that Iran has increasingly engaged in covert malign behavior to target foreign citizens.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • He is aided by Yasir Abbas, a weapons specialist; Raghuveer Singh, a sniper who served in Kashmir and Tawang; Uday Bhan, an explosives expert; and Sukhbir Singh, an Indian agent undercover in Pakistan posing as a Karachi stockbroker.
    Time, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Wednesday’s hearing before Magistrate Judge Shannon G. Elkins in downtown Minneapolis focused on several motions from Eichorn, including one to drop the charges and for the defense to be able to call the undercover officer who posed as a 17-year-old girl to testify.
    Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Webb Institute Webb Institute Source: Webb Institute Founded by the shipbuilder William Webb, this small, private college in Glen Cove, New York specializes in naval architecture and marine engineering.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Its members include defense attorneys and prosecutors, public interest lawyers and private practitioners, judges, and law firm attorneys.
    Muhammad U. Faridi, New York Daily News, 17 Aug. 2025
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“Hole-and-corner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hole-and-corner. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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