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The companies aren’t likely to reveal all the tricks and commercial secrets they used to make the vaccines, says Sanjay Mishra, a protein chemist and data scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

Then there’s Jimin’s plaintive, cheery tenor, which always turns him into the cuddliest, secret-keeping member of your slumber party.

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She starts keeping a lot of secrets from her mother, an academic secretary.

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In college, I remember thinking if a celebrity like Diana can keep a secret like that, I can do it and no one will notice.

I wished Zelda would have been as vital and essential as Link throughout the story and that she would have revealed more secrets about herself, but that wasn’t to be for most of the game.

While many Hawaiians still secretly worshipped the old gods, kapu was dead as a public pillar of the social structure.

Britain refuses to listen, but has shocked the art world by secretly loaning one of the antiquities to Russia.

But secretly rooting for the good Israelis and wishing them success is one thing.

He proceeds to tease me, asking if our interview is “secretly a date?”

As other prisoners took advantage of the rehabilitation programs offered, Lane and Opperud secretly planned an escape.

He had not estimated that if Jean Baptiste sought his wife secretly, it must have been because he wished to avoid him.

Seeing that this would not be conceded, he commenced to persecute Christians openly and secretly.

It is said that the governor has money taken from the royal treasury secretly at night.

Who among us would fail to believe what we have, perhaps, secretly wished for in our heart of hearts?

Mrs. Armine was fatigued by the journey, and by the long day at Denderah, which had secretly depressed her.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to secretly, such as: clandestinely, covertly, furtively, personally, privately, and quietly.

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

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