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the practice or habit of keeping secrets or keeping one's affairs secret
this administration's steadfast adherence to secrecy is beginning to cost it the trust of the voters
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Recent Examples of secrecy
That’s because secrecy is built into F1.
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Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 29 May 2026
Everything is shrouded in secrecy or glossed over via bureaucratic jargon.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
Obviously, eating disorders aren’t the same as addiction, but there can be a lot of crossover—shame, secrecy, control.
—Louis Staples, Glamour, 27 May 2026
Syria's new government banned interviews with them, and the Uyghurs were suspicious, having lived in near-total secrecy for more than a decade.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 May 2026
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Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 29 May 2026
Everything is shrouded in secrecy or glossed over via bureaucratic jargon.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
Obviously, eating disorders aren’t the same as addiction, but there can be a lot of crossover—shame, secrecy, control.
—Louis Staples, Glamour, 27 May 2026
Syria's new government banned interviews with them, and the Uyghurs were suspicious, having lived in near-total secrecy for more than a decade.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for secrecy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secrecy
secretiveness
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McCarthy is not the first Hollywood conservative to discuss the industry’s secretiveness over Republicanism.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Secrecy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secrecy. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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