surreptitious
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In early April 2007, I was invited to a surreptitious dinner with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the orchestra’s president, Deborah Borda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
A surreptitious airport catering truck secretly shuttled Trump to a waiting military plane, which flew him out instead.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Jeremy Levine, a venture capitalist who lives in New York, finds the practice of surreptitious recording hugely offensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
A surreptitious change of bank details does not bode well for your mother’s estate planning.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
Dad kept a sharp lookout for surreptitious painting, and was especially suspicious whenever one of the girls looked particularly pretty.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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