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as in confidential
not known or meant to be known by the general populace
the reporter suspected there was a hush-hush reason why the company agreed to the deal
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as in clandestine
undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others
top-echelon diplomats met in a hush-hush conference in a last-ditch effort to head off an international crisis
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Recent Examples of hush-hush
The management team doesn’t want to give away too much too early and is keeping the menu hush-hush for now.
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Jenna Thompson
april 13,
Kansas City Star,
13 Apr. 2026
Kylie's husband and Travis' brother, Jason Kelce, 38, has also been hush-hush about the pop superstar and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end's wedding.
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Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
31 Mar. 2026
The Pussycat Dolls couldn’t stay hush-hush forever about original member Carmit Bachar claiming that she wasn’t invited to the band’s upcoming reunion trek.
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Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
20 Mar. 2026
Details about Bridgerton season 5 are still being kept very hush-hush, but showrunner Jess Brownell did drop a major hint at the season 4 premiere.
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Allison Degrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Feb. 2026
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Jenna Thompson
april 13,
Kansas City Star,
13 Apr. 2026
Kylie's husband and Travis' brother, Jason Kelce, 38, has also been hush-hush about the pop superstar and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end's wedding.
—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
31 Mar. 2026
The Pussycat Dolls couldn’t stay hush-hush forever about original member Carmit Bachar claiming that she wasn’t invited to the band’s upcoming reunion trek.
—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
20 Mar. 2026
Details about Bridgerton season 5 are still being kept very hush-hush, but showrunner Jess Brownell did drop a major hint at the season 4 premiere.
—
Allison Degrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for hush-hush
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hush-hush
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All calls are toll-free and confidential.
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All calls will be kept confidential.
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Some may be announced publicly; others may happen in more clandestine ways.
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But clandestine flows aren’t the biggest factor behind the market calm.
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Adding this recipe's not-so-secret ingredient, Bisquick, is a game changer for classic sausage balls.
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Martin Sheen is the Army captain tasked with going on a secret mission to Cambodia to assassinate a special forces officer (Marlon Brando) who's gone rogue and might actually be nuts.
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According to his plea agreement with prosecutors, Doyle sold a Glock pistol to an undercover informant on May 20, 2025 — part of a series of transactions on Chicago’s South Side that led to his arrest on July 7, 2025, a few days after the shooting at his daughter’s party.
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Whether openly or undercover, MSV doesn’t just fail shareholders.
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Rodríguez also said the country’s entire public and private healthcare network had been activated to treat the injured, urging doctors, nurses and other medical personnel to report immediately to their workplaces.
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Delta Air Lines is metro Atlanta's largest private employer.
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Get Ready: Katy Perry Has Released a Sneak Peek of Her New Song And the internet has receipts.
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After 1996, when the protease inhibitors were developed, the duty to warn continued to be an important standard when HIV status became more clinically covert.
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Authorities say the rogue drone operation led out of a former daycare in Georgia was a staging ground where multiple drones were launched on covert missions to deliver the contraband by air to 10 federal prisons at night.
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Inside, plans call for wet and dry research labs, teaching labs, collaboration areas, offices, instructional spaces and a 130‑space underground parking garage.
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Some experts — and Kennedy — argue that offering peptides through licensed compounding pharmacies would shrink this underground market and direct people toward safer products.
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“Hush-hush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hush-hush. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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