keep in the dark
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Phoenix speaks in halting sentences, protective of a process that he’d like to keep in the dark.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
She did, after all, spend years in prison for exposing secrets the government would have preferred to keep in the dark.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2018
Uber would then obfuscate its code for people within that geofenced area, essentially drawing a digital lasso around those it wanted to keep in the dark.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017
Gabriel we have endeavoured to keep in the dark, though we cannot prevent her from knowing that there is something amiss.
From The Mystery of Cloomber by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He might not have observed anything suspicious had he turned, but a hundred feet behind him came Josie O'Gorman, deftly dodging from tree to bush to keep in the dark places by the wayside.
From Mary Louise in the Country by James Allen St. John
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