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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
Everything is very, very hush-hush.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hush-hush
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But in a possible attempt to discredit Pryor, her name and some details of her confidential complaint, available only to the mayor, commissioners and senior city employees, have been circulated publicly.—
Steve Bousquet,
Sun Sentinel,
10 May 2025
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The organizations kept talking, though, and agreed to settle for a confidential sum, averting a jury trial.—
Kevin Williams,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 May 2025
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Gaddafi agreed to suspend his country's nuclear weapons program in December 2003, following years of clandestine negotiations that began during the Clinton administration and continued under George W. Bush.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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The Gestapo, Hitler’s secret police, combed the Poles’ ranks in search of men with experience in clandestine resistance organizations.—
Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
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The same goes for other civil defendants who may have reached previously secret plea deals that will be revealed during Combs’ trial.—
Gina Barton,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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Turns out, there’s a secret tidal beach below the turrets with sublime views of the Atlantic.—
Christopher Bagley,
Travel + Leisure,
11 May 2025
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Samuel French, a Texas actor on the rise who portrayed the undercover FBI agent CJ Robinson in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, has died.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2025
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Pisano has been with the show since his 2021 debut as undercover officer Detective Joe Velasco.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
8 May 2025
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Domin encouraged residents to contact school district officials with ideas to work on private partnerships.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
13 May 2025
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But her time in public service became entangled with a private business.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2025
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That includes Tom Cruise, as covert CIA division agent Ethan Hunt, riding a motorcycle off a 4,000-foot cliff and BASE jumping the final 500 feet of a ravine, or the breathless climactic train mayhem in 2023’s Dead Reckoning, the opening installment of this two-parter.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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In an opinion piece published by the Venezuelan independent newspaper La Razón, former lawmaker Omar González Moreno recounted the covert mission that freed him and four others without a single shot being fired.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
12 May 2025
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This would suggest pockets of water in deep underground aquifers.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
12 May 2025
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Earlier this year, researchers announced the discovery of a brick underground aqueduct in Slovakia.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 May 2025
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“Hush-hush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hush-hush. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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