in secret
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Still, Todd doesn’t like the way Hal and Grace giggle together in secret.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
This is about Chelsea making £47m in secret payments, according to a Premier League investigation, to unregistered agents and third parties to seal transfers between 2011 and 2018.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The film, which A24 will release theatrically in October, had been made largely in secret over three years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan was the front-runner after last month's first informal vote, in which the council's 15 members, including the five with veto power, pass judgment in secret on the candidates.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 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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