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This year, Mind the Gap, a secretive Silicon Valley donor group supporting progressive candidates, is also sending donors their way, according to Vox.

These arachnids are usually secretive, and almost all you meet are neither aggressive nor dangerous.

The review process is highly secretive, but according to the Washington Post, the panel has launched dozens of investigations this year alone, aimed primarily at companies that received investment from China or Russia.

From Fortune

Their plans by all estimations have remained very secretive.

After a somewhat lackluster beginning to his professional running career, Farah and his family moved to Oregon early in 2011 to join the secretive Nike program based at the Beaverton world headquarters.

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The military has been trying to stop current and former special operators from discussing their secretive profession.

They dislike cell phones and they are, for various practical reasons, somewhat secretive.

The mayor responded defiantly with a kind of military pageant that was truly bizarre for such a secretive organization.

The Long Range Strike Bomber may be the most secretive Pentagon aviation program in decades.

Even the arguably more secretive National Security Agency took the Twitter plunge last December.

How could she be at the same time both cruel and tender, both true and false, frank and secretive, spiritual and sensual?

He was a secretive man who shared no secrets with his neighbors if he could help it, yet whose very idiosyncrasies betrayed them.

He was still in no hurry, but he grew cautious now, and secretive.

Some of the tribes are very secretive and stealthy in their movements.

If a child finds that no one will speak to it about sexual matters, it must ultimately become secretive about its own sexual life.

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On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to secretive, such as: covert, enigmatic, reticent, taciturn, backstairs, and buttoned-up.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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