as in surreptitiously
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The first reports of periodical cicadas emerging from their long wait underground came over the weekend from Fayette County, Tennessee and Buncombe County, North Carolina, according to the citizen science site Cicada Safari, which allows Americans to track the insect's path across the nation.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025 -
Before a brood materializes on land, each of its members — sometimes trillions of them — exist underground as larvae, subsiding on fluids from plant roots, according to the National Wildlife Federation.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Stealthily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stealthily. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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