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confidentially

ADVERB
in secret
Synonyms
WEAK
behind closed doors between ourselves between us between you and me covertly don't breathe a word hushedly in confidence in on the ground floor off the cuff off the record personally privately sub-rosa
Antonyms
WEAK
commonly familiarly openly publicly

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Confidentially filing IPO paperwork is a practice that has become popular over the last several years.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

Confidentially filing IPO paperwork is a practice that has become popular over the last several years.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

Confidentially filing IPO paperwork has become popular since it was introduced 14 years ago.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

In its first network broadcast, Confidentially Yours had a lot to say that was not particularly confidential about the Hore-Belisha bust-up in Britain, about the Duchess of Windsor's untenanted officers' hospital in France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Confidentially, there are lots of people to whose bathing-machines I would give an extra push when I had unlimbered their vehicles and turned Dobbin's nose again towards the cliffs of Albion.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 by Various

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