covertly
Americanadverb
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Origin of covertly
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But Gulf producers, shipping companies and the U.S. adapted through U.S. military protection, mine-cleared lanes, commercial vessels’ traveling covertly, ship-to-ship transfers outside the Gulf, and bypass routes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
In one case, a 17-year-old girl told British broadcaster Channel 4 News in August how she had been approached by a man who covertly recorded her and their interaction.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
When the film opens at Oak Street’s idyllic summer block party, complete with cookouts and kids happily pedaling together on their bikes, he purposefully evokes the atmosphere of the movies he covertly cites.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The other undercover officer, Anna, got to know him separately, and during a covertly captured conversation in a café in December 2023 she put it to him that his nephew had killed somebody.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
What bothered her, she realized as she covertly watched those girls, was that she would never have that circle of friendship.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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