incognito

As Merryl Goldberg relates in her account of the adventure, “Notes of Deception,” written with the intelligence historian Vince Houghton, she and her friends were traveling incognito.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Sugar came to Earth as part of a group of “thousands,” mixing among humans incognito just to observe them, for benign alien reasons, like Starship Enterprise on its five-year mission.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Some ships have also transited Hormuz undetected: There have been reports that some ships have turned off their GPS-like signals and transited incognito, either for safety or because they are part of so-called shadow fleets.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

WhatsApp has introduced private chats with its AI chatbot which not even the tech company will be able to read in a new "incognito" mode.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

Thus, to travel incognito means to be “not known”; to use a false identity, or to be in disguise.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Around this time, chef Melfi spotted us — we were no longer incognitos.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015

Upon the third day, however, there was noticed a mysterious figure, like the inscrutable incognitos sometimes encountered, crossing the tower-shadowed Plaza of Assignations at Lima.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

It was a republic of incognitos: no one knew who anyone else was, and only the more ill-mannered and uneasy even desired to know.

From Varied Types by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

He replied that, by courtesy, incognitos were sacred.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

But Jove himself, as everybody knows, was much addicted to incognitos, and so was his terrene representative, the Emperor of Austria.

From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach