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
CBS News,
23 June 2026
As European automakers retrench in the face of Chinese competition, Chinese firms are taking over the spare factory space as a part of a stealth strategy to conquer global markets.
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Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
23 June 2026
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
And the Air Force research lab continues to drive the materials science and engineering required to make stealth possible.
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Randy Tucker,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
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Adjective
But after criticism that the breaks were a stealth way to insert advertising or American-style timeouts, Infantino suggested the stoppages have been positive.
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CBS News,
23 June 2026
As European automakers retrench in the face of Chinese competition, Chinese firms are taking over the spare factory space as a part of a stealth strategy to conquer global markets.
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Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
23 June 2026
Noun
In January, Rein Security emerged from stealth to create a platform that actually tracks what AI agents do.
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Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
And the Air Force research lab continues to drive the materials science and engineering required to make stealth possible.
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Randy Tucker,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stealth
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Some may be announced publicly; others may happen in more clandestine ways.
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But clandestine flows aren’t the biggest factor behind the market calm.
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Though the plans are cloaked in secrecy, tabloids suggest something is set to happen on July 3 in New York, possibly something involving Madison Square Garden.
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So, the path of least resistance is secrecy.
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Get Ready: Katy Perry Has Released a Sneak Peek of Her New Song And the internet has receipts.
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Instead the episode begins with Spike (James Marsters) and Drusilla (Juliet Landau) plotting.
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Battle, conspiracy, plotting, and some new faces in the cast.
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After 1996, when the protease inhibitors were developed, the duty to warn continued to be an important standard when HIV status became more clinically covert.
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Authorities say the rogue drone operation led out of a former daycare in Georgia was a staging ground where multiple drones were launched on covert missions to deliver the contraband by air to 10 federal prisons at night.
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Hatcher — a Pomo shape-shifter who dodges prejudice by passing as Mexican in the novel — is a thorny protagonist, often cunning, scheming and unforgiving.
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The family dramas and professional scheming can’t hold a candle to Succession.
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According to his plea agreement with prosecutors, Doyle sold a Glock pistol to an undercover informant on May 20, 2025 — part of a series of transactions on Chicago’s South Side that led to his arrest on July 7, 2025, a few days after the shooting at his daughter’s party.
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Whether openly or undercover, MSV doesn’t just fail shareholders.
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In the 1971 technothriller The Andromeda Strain, identifying an unknown microbe took a team of scientists and a secret state-of-the-art underground research facility.
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There are more than 1,000 corroding, rusty underground storage tanks leaking gasoline into Miami-Dade County’s groundwater, and 6,000 across the state of Florida.
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“Stealth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stealth. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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