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anonymity

[an-uh-nim-i-tee] / ˌæn əˈnɪm ɪ ti /


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“So much of the history of art is the anonymity of women, whether she’s a Madonna, Venus or a nude bather,” says art historian Katy Hessel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“It put a pit in stomachs,” said one supporter close to the Bass campaign who requested anonymity to speak candidly about the poll.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Pentagon’s public database cites 18 servicemember deaths, but officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the figures, said the true number could be as high as 23.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Anthropic could share financial paperwork for its IPO in the coming weeks, the New York Times reported, citing people speaking on condition of anonymity.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

In the OASIS, you could become whomever and whatever you wanted to be, without ever revealing your true identity, because your anonymity was guaranteed.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Director Clair uses anonymities for his leads; Actor Raymond Cordy was a taxi-driver a year ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Presumably because of the libel laws, Cross confines his harsher remarks about the House of Commons to anonymities.

From Time Magazine Archive

The thought of these poor anonymities frightened her.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh

It is the rendezvous of expiring illusions, the gathering place of the anonymities which utilize man, beasts and plants.

From Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath by Wallace Smith

I am not quite so pleased to get these anonymities, I must confess, as I am to get a clean, tall editio princeps of The Orphan or of Love for Love.

From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse




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