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Recent Examples of stealthily
Such cerebral, stealthily political dramas have made Petzold an auteur’s auteur, beloved by the likes of Claire Denis and Brady Corbet.
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Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
But the major platform of the Oscars also brings another level of exposition, which is not always beneficial for a documentary director trying to move stealthily and precisely.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
Faced with rising electricity prices, Americans are stealthily adding DIY solar systems.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
Why did the actor and Oscar-winning filmmaker stealthily start exploring the technology that is giving Hollywood such existential angst?
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2026
Do these pictures stealthily undermine that brand of autocracy because Foto Estudio Luisita was a feminist enterprise where women made images of women?
—Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
Her wardrobe has taken a less trendy, more stealthily-chic focus.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2026
Under the noses of her family, Kelly’s business team, and the revolving door of yes-people in his recording studio and homes, the book details how Kelly stealthily groomed the middle-schooler in plain sight.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2026
The unidentified white van slowly and stealthily pulled up outside the million-dollar-plus homes under the cover of darkness, grainy surveillance footage showed.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
But the major platform of the Oscars also brings another level of exposition, which is not always beneficial for a documentary director trying to move stealthily and precisely.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
Faced with rising electricity prices, Americans are stealthily adding DIY solar systems.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
Why did the actor and Oscar-winning filmmaker stealthily start exploring the technology that is giving Hollywood such existential angst?
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2026
Do these pictures stealthily undermine that brand of autocracy because Foto Estudio Luisita was a feminist enterprise where women made images of women?
—Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
Her wardrobe has taken a less trendy, more stealthily-chic focus.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2026
Under the noses of her family, Kelly’s business team, and the revolving door of yes-people in his recording studio and homes, the book details how Kelly stealthily groomed the middle-schooler in plain sight.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2026
The unidentified white van slowly and stealthily pulled up outside the million-dollar-plus homes under the cover of darkness, grainy surveillance footage showed.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stealthily
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Maritime tracking firm Winward suggested the ship may have spoofed its location and surreptitiously delivered the fuel to Cuba already.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2026
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Slipping surreptitiously from documentary to drama, the story of Junyi, a Catalan of Chinese decent, and his embrace of his roots, moved by the singular draw of family history, and with that a multi-cultural identity.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
10 Mar. 2026
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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
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Zevin writes gentle books, seemingly cozy but sneakily profound.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
22 Mar. 2026
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Your trusty Aquanet, or more modern equivalent, can be used to sneakily keep hydrangeas looking healthy, full, and alive.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2026
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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
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Despite the disruption, some Iranian oil shipments appear to be continuing — often covertly.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
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The Baath Party was also displeased by the open secret that Iran – as well as Israel and the United States – was covertly supporting the Kurds in its fight against the Iraqi central government.—
Lily Hindy,
The Conversation,
12 Mar. 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
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Penrose also participated in multiple attempts to clandestinely seize voting machines, including in Michigan, where prosecutors accused him of breaking into some of the machines.—
Doug Bock Clark,
ProPublica,
14 Mar. 2026
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The company plans to buy electricity from a natural gas plant to be built at the Archer Daniels Midland corn processing plant in Decatur, Illinois, where carbon dioxide emissions would be captured and stored underground.—
Tammy Webber,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Blinken said the Democratic administrations considered military action but didn’t pursue it because Iran could retaliate and bury its nuclear program deeper underground.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Stealthily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stealthily. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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