covert
Example Sentences
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One particular covert operation she regularly took part in is one many daughters have had to take with their resolute mothers — Black Friday shopping.
From Los Angeles Times
The FBI thought the lead was promising enough to launch an undercover investigation, people familiar with it said, with a covert agent befriending the woman’s significant other to elicit new clues.
After days of conflicting reports about her whereabouts, Machado showed up in Oslo a day after the Nobel award ceremony, reportedly following a covert, U.S.-aided voyage via land, sea and private jet.
From Los Angeles Times
Operation Cyclone, which began under Jimmy Carter’s watch and extended through Reagan’s two terms, remains, to this day, the largest covert CIA operation in American history.
From Salon
“You use a combination of covert activity and airstrikes when you don’t want to send in any ground forces,” said Seth Jones, who previously worked in U.S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
