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secrecy

[see-kruh-see] / ˈsi krə si /


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Moynihan said the bank has made progress in efforts to pass regulatory muster since the 2024 order, adding thousands of employees to work on compliance with bank secrecy laws.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Sworn to secrecy however, his family and friends almost never learned of the true role the 103-year-old played in the Allied war effort.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

"Due to the extreme secrecy under which they worked, people on Orford Ness never spoke of their projects and often took their details to their grave," Kirchner continued.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The secrecy matters now because of a question Xi has never resolved: who would succeed him?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

I could not think of much else that would involve this much whispering and secrecy, or that would have so strong an effect on Bunny.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Once the eye gets used to the quirks and secrecies of his inimitable shorthand, it discovers how deeply regional an artist he was.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Denis had his secrecies about the Tree, gifts which had to go on at the last moment and to be placed there by himself.

From Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan

With all his faults, his poses, his superficialities, his secrecies, his egotisms, I never dreamed of him as aught but a loyal and honourable gentleman.

From Jaffery by William John Locke

He never would follow the individual soul into its secrecies; he was concerned with man only as a fragment of humanity.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

It has the air of going profoundly into the secrecies of love and joy and truth, but it contains hardly a sentence that would waken a ruffle on the surface of the shallowest spirit.

From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd


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