stealthily

adverb

Definition of stealthilynext
as in surreptitiously

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Recent Examples of stealthily The spread of the video was aided by clippers, accounts that post hundreds of clips in a single day and are paid by companies to stealthily link these viral moments to their platforms. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 Wolf’s Shinobi Prosthetic houses a grappling hook for scaling rooftops, leaping between trees, and approaching enemies stealthily. — Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026 From there, the group could stealthily disperse the new strain through air-handling systems at major livestock farms across the United States. — Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 World Liberty is celebrating the major milestone, while critics worry this is a new wrinkle on the classic case of the fox guarding the henhouse that will give corporations and foreign actors a new way to stealthily curry favor with the White House. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026 ClickFix works by tricking you into performing an action on your computer that stealthily downloads and installs malware. — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026 The pollution is expected to drift into the Bay Area, stealthily diminishing air quality without the signature campfire smell associated with wildfire smoke, according to Anthony Edwards, the San Francisco Chronicle’s newsroom meteorologist. — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026 The films are set in modern times, but the character is stealthily nostalgic. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026 Damon can be as crisp an orator as any actor now working, but his performance here reminds you why Jason Bourne, moving stealthily through a crowd like a sheathed dagger, remains one of his defining roles. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stealthily
  1. surreptitiously
  2. furtively
  3. sneakily
  4. secretively
  5. covertly
  6. clandestinely
  7. underground
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  • In the first image above, Wardle can be seen using a simple terminal command to surreptitiously send a prompt to the Meta endpoint.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
  • There has been a string of alarming incidents in which swarms of rogue AI agents have hacked online platforms such as Hugging Face and surreptitiously communicated with one another on message boards.
    — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of surreptitiously
Adverb
  • There are cities where rats are glimpsed at night, furtively scurrying into a dark corner or among the train tracks.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Jordan may wish to exact revenge, and Eddy may want to find one of the victims who has vanished, but both have to go about their work furtively.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of furtively
Adverb
  • It may be branded a Gen Z series, but FX’s Adults is sneakily quite a throwback.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
  • But then there are the bad habits that can sneakily sabotage our skin, and when wrinkles are looming, things get a little more personal.
    — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of sneakily
Adverb
  • The state, in partnership with the federal government, built the camp quickly and secretively and opened it in July.
    — Eve Samples, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026
  • 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.
    — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
Definition of secretively
Adverb
  • That’s progress but doesn’t really address people’s primary concerns about the glasses being used to covertly record people in public.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Because submarines can operate covertly for extended periods, additional missile capacity can give commanders greater flexibility while keeping the launch platform difficult to detect.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of covertly
Adverb
  • Because Iran is a theocratic dictatorship that routinely arrests and in some cases executes journalists, Western reporters hoping to cover the country must either work clandestinely or submit to government supervision.
    — James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026
  • Soon afterward, social media commenters were speculating about whether Sierra broke into the office or was caught clandestinely shredding documents.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
Definition of clandestinely
Adverb
  • Chinese media also reported that participating forces were stationed underground during the exercise to protect them from drone attacks, illustrating how persistent aerial surveillance and strike drones are changing battlefield operations.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Instead the compounds are diluted, pushed underground or mixed in surface floodwaters.
    — Gregory Wakeman, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026
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