sub rosa
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Ed Newton, a Philadelphia-based photographer, entered the sub rosa world of the ramp hunt when he set out with several foragers this spring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
But she also has, beneath the top layers of this Christmas story she was asked to make by Oscar-winning auteur Alfonso Cuarón, her own sub rosa meanings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
The backbiting — and the sub rosa efforts to thwart their own president — led to constant personnel turnover, a dreary parade of firings, resignations and defenestrations.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
But Poor can also claim a quirky bit of sub rosa fame, and when he revealed it over dinner that night, I nearly fell out of my chair.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
He saw at once that I wished my identity kept sub rosa, and the army was greatly in need of men.
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison
Hijinks ensue, and schemes within schemes — including a rhino-saving project that somehow involves Persephone babysitting a rhino overnight; a sub-rosa jewel-trading venture; and some silly CIA business.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2021
“There is a lot of sub-rosa sanctions enforcement going on with U.S. officials at State and Treasury and others,” Mr. Klingner said.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 29, 2020
"There was this semi-secret, sub-rosa network of gay clubs we would go to," Prof Lockyer explained.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2017
Bachelder’s reliance on sub-rosa psychological churnings partly reflects his strengths as a novelist: he excels as an analyst of the anxieties that undergird social mores rather than as a dramatist of extravagant scenes.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2016
My father would not have believed in the possibility of sub-rosa vocations.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
