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Recent Examples of secretively
Early modern Europe was not an ideal place to enforce intellectual property rights, which in those days existed only when technologies could be secretively monopolized by a guild.
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Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secretively
Adverb
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Unlike Monday's burial for Princess Irene, which follows a Saturday prayer service in Madrid and a funeral Monday at Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, the Tatoi interment for Sofia's mother, Queen Federica of Greece, was not official, and took place almost furtively.—
Diego Parrado,
Vanity Fair,
18 Jan. 2026
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This has become the central theme of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City—probably the most chaotic show in its franchise—whose characters are always trying to root out which of their frenemies is furtively digging up dirt and spreading rumors about their legal or financial woes.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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That meant the magma could easily, and stealthily, pry its way through the crust, rather than having to smash through solid rock.—
Robin George Andrews,
Scientific American,
23 Apr. 2026
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As Adrian Van Young put it in the Southwest Review, the book’s draw is stealthily structural.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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Rarely before has a name so perfectly captured the look and feel of an endeavor that has, almost surreptitiously, dug its way into a space where it’s not supposed to be.—
Carl Juste,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
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Katas wan't recording in the front seat, so Christine, seated beside the wives in the back, surreptitiously pulled out her phone to record Bateman.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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To help pay the informants covertly, prosecutors say SPLC illegally set up shell accounts in order to funnel funds their way -- with a total of more than $3 million going to informants between 2014 and 2023.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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To critics, this kind of tangled spending dynamic reflects an increasingly secretive web of money built to covertly distribute money from billionaire donors.—
Gabe Kaminsky,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Pumpkin Seeds Seeds are sneakily a great source of protein, and one of the best ones experts love is pumpkin seeds.—
Philipp Wehsack,
Vogue,
28 Mar. 2026
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Zevin writes gentle books, seemingly cozy but sneakily profound.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
22 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The audio recordings, shared by outlets including VSquare, Frontstory, Delfi Estonia, the Insider, and the Investigative Centre of Jan Kuciak, seem to have been clandestinely gathered.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Apr. 2026
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Many of them, like Lavrov, had to leave clandestinely because getting out with Russian permission is nearly impossible.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
22 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Potatoes planted in the garden a few months ago are forming potatoes underground and the plants are starting to decline.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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Dickson said the site readiness work is the most complicated part of the project because of the amount of major mechanics that lie underground.—
Jessica Moore,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Secretively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secretively. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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