stealthily

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Recent Examples of stealthily Others are stealthily looking for deals, sales, using layaway options and trading brand preferences for affordability. Leah Olajide, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2025 Did the guys stealthily get rid of their pocket squares? Radhika Seth, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2025 The work in that book was surreal and stealthily philosophical—its opening poem was a fifteen-page meditation on the ontology of Popeye the Sailor Man—but impersonal. Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025 Russian forces advance stealthily or rapidly on foot, trying to get through the barrage of FPV drones. David Hambling, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stealthily
Adverb
  • Well aware of the sprawling privacy implications of ubiquitous personal recording devices, Xu is careful to position Plaud devices as professional tools, not gadgets made to surreptitiously capture dinner table conversations.
    Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Could only participate, if surreptitiously, in this long-overdue cumulation.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Changing congressional maps in a bid to ensure one party’s victory over another — called gerrymandering — has typically been done more furtively.
    Jesse Bedayn, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • When Glenna excuses herself to go check on Lady Ellen, Julia thanks the woman and then proceeds to sneakily follow her straight up to Ellen’s quarters.
    Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Never Write Off Palmeiras Despite infighting at the club and star player Estêvão’s move to Chelsea, Palmeiras are sneakily hanging onto Flamengo’s lead.
    Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Just last year researchers using similar brain imaging methods found that one in four behaviorally unresponsive patients was covertly conscious.
    Andrew Chapman, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • To boost their morale, Washington had the play clandestinely produced for his troops at Valley Forge during an especially bleak winter.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Until the early 1970s, the Ojibwe continued to mine small pieces of pipestone at Ozhaawashkonaagwad clandestinely.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Rather than focusing on bans that drive these relationships underground, companies should focus on transparency.
    Kim Elsesser, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The city spends about $15 million a year moving power lines underground.
    Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Stealthily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stealthily. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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