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well-guarded

British  

adjective

  1. having sufficient protection from danger or harm

  2. kept private or out of the public eye

    well-guarded secrets

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

The finer manufacturing details are a well-guarded secret, and no outside cameras are allowed.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023

Experienced morel hunters return to well-guarded spots year after year, often exhibiting a form of selective hearing loss when asked where they collected their haul.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2022

You probably do not know much about this, because you have always been so closely watched by your father in that well-guarded house with your genteel mother.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

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