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Recent Examples of hush-hush Even by the usual standards of federal secrecy, the satellite project was extremely hush-hush. William J. Broad, New York Times, 19 May 2025 Feel it’s been kept very hush-hush, which seems to be the Forest way. Paul Taylor, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025 Here are 9 hush-hush destinations for your next quiet adventure. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025 To cash in on these hush-hush discounts before they’re gone, just head to Rue La La to log in or create a free account using your email address. Averi Baudler, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hush-hush
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hush-hush
Adjective
  • Her usual duties included accessing confidential deputy records and internal affairs investigations.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
  • The city argued the policy was confidential, and would interfere with the department’s ability to fight crime.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • American veterans and others have traveled to smaller, clandestine clinics for treatment to deal with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 June 2025
  • Gi-hun, who’d found his way back in the clandestine gaming complex (situated inside a mountain on a remote island), is Player 456 again among a new round of contestants.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • Peter Vack This fictional tale collapses the internet, theater, and the movie screen into a dystopian world where, with the creation of a world blurring online and offline, the three merge into a secret fourth thing.
    Matt Shaw, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Amazon’s secret outlet has more than 20,000 markdowns on summer clothing and accessories.
    Emily Weaver, People.com, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • On June 24, undercover agents attempted to purchase fireworks from Pan.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
  • Conan Edogawa and Detective Kogoro Mouri join the Nagano prefectural police to investigate a break-in at the observatory while uncovering a deeper plot involving undercover agents, betrayal, and vengeance.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • This was of national interest, not just private economic interest.
    Laura Poppick, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
  • The expansion fee is a record $250 million, according to two sources who requested anonymity because the discussions were private.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • For every regime change at the hands of Americans that went well—think Adolf Hitler’s exit from Germany and Benito Mussolini from Italy—there are multitudes that went off the rails: six overt attempts during the Cold War and another 64 in covert operations.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 19 June 2025
  • The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy The laughs are as big as the mullets in this rollicking story about a hugely successful hair-metal band that’s really a cover for a covert operation in Cold War-era Eastern Europe.
    Andrea Lavinthal, People.com, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • This ambitious project is powered by an army of 432 small robots that are moving the massive structure about 33 feet each day to make way for a new underground development.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 June 2025
  • Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his cabinet directed the British war effort during World War II from this secret underground complex.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025

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