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Recent Examples of open secretWhile their wonderful selection of cashmere is an open secret (peep just about any of our holiday guides), their alpaca blend knits are a sleeper hit.—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024 My musical dreams were just that, something like an open secret.—Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024 Oil is an open secret, the shadow side of our petroleum-hungry moment.—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024 The matter of the photograph’s true authorship was, according to accounts in the film, an open secret among people who were there.—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for open secret
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ancient history
Noun
His multi-layered narrative consisting of romance, mystery, poetry, and mystery, sheds light onto his enriched background of ancient history.
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Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
There was a time—not ancient history—when a star’s greatest currency was mystery.
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