well-guarded
Britishadjective
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having sufficient protection from danger or harm
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kept private or out of the public eye
well-guarded secrets
Example Sentences
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Unable to deliver cars to the Gulf, Grimaldi found a fix acceptable to his clients: Dropping the cargo off at a port in Kenya that had a well-guarded place to keep it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
He said the bottleneck evident for well-guarded nuclear weapons and the scarce resources of plutonium and uranium are constraints that do not exist for open-source software models that do not depend upon rare natural resources.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
Even inside the Rainier Square complex, which on a recent day felt fancy, fresh and very well-guarded, most of the street front retail spaces are empty.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The finer manufacturing details are a well-guarded secret, and no outside cameras are allowed.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023
But my fear was too great, my conscience too precocious to allow me to relinquish control of my well-guarded soul.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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