as in surreptitiously
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Katas wan't recording in the front seat, so Christine, seated beside the wives in the back, surreptitiously pulled out her phone to record Bateman.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Apr. 2026 -
Trump may have also relieved pressure on Democrats to surreptitiously help one of the Republicans to leap ahead, so as to avoid a 1-2 GOP outcome.—
Dan Walters,
Oc Register,
6 Apr. 2026
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Her foundation, Yield Giving, has been stealthily donating billions since 2020 with no strings attached.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
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As part of the Virginia-class fleet, USS New Jersey forms a central element of the US attack-submarine force, designed to operate stealthily in both littoral zones and open-ocean environments, providing the Navy with a versatile and survivable platform for modern undersea warfare.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Apr. 2026
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Pumpkin Seeds Seeds are sneakily a great source of protein, and one of the best ones experts love is pumpkin seeds.—
Philipp Wehsack,
Vogue,
28 Mar. 2026
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Zevin writes gentle books, seemingly cozy but sneakily profound.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
22 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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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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The company claimed to be hunting for evidence that Musk was covertly funding its critics.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Mohan advocates for his care and attempts to covertly give the patient free supplies.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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The audio recordings, shared by outlets including VSquare, Frontstory, Delfi Estonia, the Insider, and the Investigative Centre of Jan Kuciak, seem to have been clandestinely gathered.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Apr. 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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Each team will alternate tossing the bean bag underhand onto the board until all four bean bags are thrown.—
Anthony Gharib,
USA TODAY,
13 June 2023
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Pitchers tossed underhand and no one wore gloves yet, resulting in smarting pain in the hands of catchers and first basemen.—
Jeff Suess,
The Enquirer,
29 Mar. 2023
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