incognito
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During the first year of @veteranas_and_rucas, she took an incognito approach to running the account.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Meanwhile, Norwegian superstar Erling Haaland tucked his signature blond hair beneath a baseball cap to go incognito and visited Katz’s Deli in Manhattan for a pastrami sandwich.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 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
When a complex operation went awry and led to the death of her romantic partner, the pregnant Kendal quit the business and vowed to raise her baby incognito as a low-profile civilian in Switzerland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“We must travel incognito disguised as children,” Alexander concluded.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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Around this time, chef Melfi spotted us — we were no longer incognitos.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015
Sooner or later the fellow would gather that he had been befooled, but, provided that we preserved our incognitos, that did not matter.
From Berry And Co. by Dornford Yates
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
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
But all is now lost; I know not who he was; and this estimable author must needs share the oblivious fate of all literary incognitos.
From Redburn. His First Voyage by Herman Melville
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