secrecy
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Greystone Mansion carried an air of secrecy in itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Despite their elaborate efforts at secrecy and unaccountability, Flock works through government contracts.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
It also didn’t transmit its position, according to flight trackers, secrecy that would have afforded the president some protection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Joe Biden's 2023 visit to Ukraine was also shrouded in strict secrecy during a long journey by plane and train, though he was accompanied by a reporter and photographer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
He has certain qualities very largely developed; selfishness, secrecy, and purpose.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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
Already your full-foliaged branches wave, And the thin failing hosts Into your secrecies are swift withdrawn Before the certain footsteps of the dawn.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
He ever leaves some passages doubtfull, as if they were some more intimate secrecies of state, clozing his sentence abruptly with—heereafter you shall heare more.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
She saw his face cloud, she was well aware of his dislike of secrecies, but she was too much afraid that, somehow, at the last moment an insuperable obstacle would bar the way.
From The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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
