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Examples of open secret in a Sentence
It's an open secret that he's been cheating on his wife.
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But the open secret among data watchers is that YouTube has emerged as one the biggest threats eating the traditional media companies’ lunch.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
The open secret of workers’ relationship with the gentry, in Eliot, is that their labor makes its gentility possible.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
To regular customers, the impending closure of the Fells Point scotch bar, after 44 years in business, was an open secret.
—Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2024
That the 1990s reforms have failed has been an open secret for years among advocates, lawyers and judges, who have repeatedly called for an overhaul.
—Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1828, in the meaning defined above
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“Open secret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20secret. Accessed 13 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
open secret
noun
: something supposed to be a secret but in fact generally known
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