keep under wraps

1. see under wraps.

Example Sentences

She’s bearing witness to a human dilemma our culture would prefer to keep under wraps, but Ortega might just as easily be doing an audio essay or podcast.

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An early teaser trailer indicated that “Companion” could be a fun, freaky good time, while a more recent spate of promotion revealed the film’s central plot point that its initial marketing took care to keep under wraps.

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The pictures released by Ferrari, which are likely to disguise key design areas of the car that the team want to keep under wraps for as long as possible, show a redesigned nose and front wing and extensively reshaped bodywork as the team seek to find the consistent, predictable downforce that was often elusive for them last year.

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She had been reading studies and articles that showed psychedelic patients revealing truths they wanted to keep under wraps.

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The three handwritten pages posted by conservative talk-show host Steven Crowder this week offered a motive for the deadly March 27 Covenant School shooting — the perpetrator wrote of wanting to kill white kids with “privileges”— but no answers as to why law enforcement officials have fought so hard to keep under wraps the writings of 28-year-old Aiden Hale, born Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who was killed by police in the incident.

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