secrecy
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“The industry comes from a history of secrecy and so some of that’s just reflex,” Amazon Chief Global Affairs and Legal Officer David Zapolsky said in an interview regarding the nondisclosure agreements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
It has also heard concerns about the secrecy in which the SAS operated and that previous investigations into the allegations were ended prematurely.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The secrecy and lack of transparency around McConnell is fueling all sorts of understandable questions.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
Transparency interrupts the vicious cycle where people think AI use is shameful, so they hide it; that secrecy makes everyone suspicious of everyone else, which only makes AI use seem even more shameful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It's closed to the public and media, so secrecy is assured.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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
And he thought how marvellous was the protective vastness of the town, beneath whose shield he was free—free to live different lives simultaneously, to make his own laws, to maintain indefinitely exciting and delicious secrecies.
From The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett
To narrate its alternate secrecies and sensations would be impossible here; but one fashionable fallacy about it may be exploded with advantage.
From A History of the United States by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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
Pray heaven it hath not only stolen back, and hidden again in thy high secrecies, oh tree!
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
