in secret
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Previous deportees were held in secret at a military base outside Accra by armed guards.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
Which is probably why even the people pushing the idea admit they are doing it in secret.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
Roosevelt was aware of the critics and thus had the Tennis Cabinet operate mostly in secret.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
“Any self-imposed pause could lift at any moment, in secret and without warning,” the Maryland Attorney General’s Office wrote in response.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2026
This doctrine was so dangerous that the manuscript describing it had to be circulated in secret, an Athenian samizdat.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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