as in clandestine
undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others
the SWAT team carried out a stealth raid on the house, which was believed to be harboring a terrorist cell
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Recent Examples of stealth
Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
DensityAI, which is poised to come out of stealth soon, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Overall, Metal Gear Solid Delta is a superb remake of probably the best stealth action game ever made.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Into the depths of a forest teeming with spotted creatures, each of them full of stealth and danger and desire enough to kill a man.
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
DensityAI, which is poised to come out of stealth soon, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
The film opens with Ash facilitating the stealth exchange of sensitive documents between a man named Hoffman (played by Matthew Maher) and an executive (Victor Garber) at his former place of work, Optimo Pharmaceutical, that implicates the company in fraud.
—EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Overall, Metal Gear Solid Delta is a superb remake of probably the best stealth action game ever made.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stealth
Adjective
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The position of chief judge, currently held by Timothy Evans, will instead be determined by an election held behind closed doors during a clandestine voting process in which fellow judges cast their secret ballots.—
Paul Vallas,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Aug. 2025
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Journaling, secret crushes and clandestine affairs take precedence.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This environment of mass detentions, human rights violations and secrecy has created a lucrative side business for corrupt official who prey on family members of the imprisoned.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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Some employees choose to keep their relationship secret because such relationships are banned in their organization, others choose secrecy for privacy reasons or because the relationship is extramarital.—
Kim Elsesser,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Get Ready: Katy Perry Has Released a Sneak Peek of Her New Song And the internet has receipts.—
Mehera Bonner,
Marie Claire,
15 Mar. 2017
Noun
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While these reflections offer some useful context to Carroll, this circuitous plotting is distracting.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
30 Aug. 2025
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Like Mare, but slightly more elegant in its plotting, Task uses the detective-story format and the specificity of its rural Pennsylvania setting to explore elemental human problems.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Woman of the Hour In her directorial debut, Anna Kendrick stars as aspiring actress Sheryl Bradshaw, who unknowingly crosses paths with a covert serial killer (Daniel Zovatto) while appearing on The Dating Game.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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That provision allows a president to take covert actions as long as Congress is informed.—
Emily Goodin,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Morning Show’s journalists and executives are back to boardroom scheming and digging for the truth in a new trailer for the Apple TV+ show’s fourth season.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
20 Aug. 2025
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For MacNeill, whose character's successful scheming leads to this arrangement, there's no other way forward to protect their status.—
Maureen Lee Lenker Published,
EW.com,
16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In it, Super Bowl-winning quarterback Eli Manning goes undercover in heavy prosthetics and a wig and dons the alias Chad Powers to try out as a walk-on quarterback for Penn State football.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Sep. 2025
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Senate Bill 627, for example, would prohibit law enforcement agents from covering their faces to obscure their identity, carving out exceptions for SWAT teams and undercover officers.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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More importantly, the film shows how extreme ideologies create strange bedfellows, which Baranov uses to his advantage, funding underground biker militias and esoteric religious headbangers alike as ballast to prop up Putin’s hardline rule.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
31 Aug. 2025
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In the northern town of Épernay, stroll down the famous Avenue de Champagne—often called the richest avenue in the world due to its quantity of champagne stored in underground cellars—where guests are granted private tastings, like the one at the houses Moët & Chandon.—
Jennifer Schwartz,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Stealth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stealth. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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