well-guarded

British  

adjective

1. having sufficient protection from danger or harm

2. kept private or out of the public eye

   well-guarded secrets

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Example Sentences

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

Just steps away, behind Cayalá’s gates, its well-guarded residential areas, perched near a nature reserve, were eerily quiet.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

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

Even inside the Rainier Square complex, which on a recent day felt fancy, fresh and very well-guarded, most of the street front retail spaces are empty.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023

Soviet agents used a well-guarded codebook, a kind of secret dictionary, with thousands of words.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin