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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

The House Appropriations Committee reached a similar conclusion earlier this year, warning that excessive secrecy can undermine deterrence and hinder cooperation with allies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

Arguing for secrecy in all three courts, the security service told judges that it had always stuck to its core secrecy policy and never told anyone whether X was an agent, including me.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

That caution and secrecy kept many spy stories from ever being made public.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

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

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

Some, smitten hearts with the long secrecies, On velvet moss, deep in their bowers' ease, Prattling the love of timid infancies, Are tearing the green bark from the young trees.

From Silverpoints by John Gray

The face!—the face!—forth again from thy high secrecies, oh, tree! the face steals down upon me.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

Every one's education and way of life are much the same; there are no secrecies, no vague authority attaching to special vocations; no one permits himself to feel impressed by any person or thing.

From The New Society by Arthur Windham


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