as in privately
in a manner intended to prevent knowledge or awareness by others
the board of trustees met in camera to decide the fate of the embattled university president
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Adverb
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Many people in Washington privately say that federal law should be the solution.—
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Interesting Engineering,
22 Sep. 2025 -
Instead, the royal couple met privately with the Catholic leader on April 9.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
22 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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So these cases are almost always settled confidentially.—
Stayton Bonner,
Robb Report,
24 Aug. 2025
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Tips can be made to the Arson Watch Reward Program confidentially and anonymously, fire officials said.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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And secretly, Järnkrok was too.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
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The season finale of House of Guinness opens with Patrick Cochrane — the Fenian Brotherhood leader who Edward had banished to New York — secretly returning to Ireland, with both an axe to grind against the Guinnesses and a perilous political mission to carry out.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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“In camera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/in%20camera. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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