sub rosa

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

“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 ● Mar. 1, 2020

So, mon ami, I am here in your charming and hospitable city to direct the necessary sanitary measures, sub rosa, of course.

From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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