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Recent Examples of hush-hush Everything is very, very hush-hush. People.com, 6 Jan. 2025 There have been back-to-back open Congressional hearings and several classified gatherings in hush-hush, closed-door sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) settings. Leonard David, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024 Gilt is brimming with hush-hush sales on designer clothing, jewelry, and accessories, like Stuart Weitzman shoes and Valentino fashion. Averi Baudler, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024 Pentagon watchers are getting more detail about the high-stakes, hush-hush Replicator project and its growing emphasis on assembly line prowess — not just fancy blueprints. Colin Demarest, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hush-hush
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hush-hush
Adjective
  • The White House’s claims about Abrego Garcia’s gang affiliation are based mostly on one confidential tip.
    Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS; all calls are kept confidential.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • He was allegedly held in a clandestine detention site and tortured by intelligence agents.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Guests can order craft cocktails at the circular bar, and for those who indulge, there’s a small, clandestine cigar room just off the entrance.
    John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • For the privilege of associating with the Trumps, the startup would have to make, in effect, a secret multimillion dollar payment to World Liberty.
    Eric Lipton, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Amazing tales of dead spacecraft that came back to life Related: SpaceX launches secret US spy satellite on 19th anniversary of company's 1st-ever liftoff (video, photos) The HALO Trust has been working in Cambodia since the 1990s, helping to scour hundreds of square miles of contaminated land.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Han Solo bon mot is reminiscent of Diego Luna's confusion when he is asked about smoothing some of Cassian Andor's rougher edges to go undercover as fashion designer Varian Skye in the second block of Andor season 2 episodes.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 May 2025
  • Next up, he’s set to star alongside Bryce Dallas Howard and Sean Bean in the action comedy Deep Cover, about a group of improv actors who are asked to go undercover.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And when the owner of the second-largest private company in the United States speaks, there’s an oracle-like aura that demands parsing.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 2 May 2025
  • The court’s decision is expected to turn on whether charter schools, which are publicly funded but have private operators, are public schools under the law.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • After the unexpected death of the pope, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running the covert process of choosing a new leader.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Those documents gave curious readers more details about Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations, but did not initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK.
    Josh Funk and Haya Panjwani, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Even the price tag of the new Mount Weather work is confidential, but contracting details suggest workers will must be skilled in both underground construction and HVAC equipment, including air handlers.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • In 1965, the hotel built an underground bunker where guests could shelter during US air raids.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025

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“Hush-hush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hush-hush. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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