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secretly

[ see-krit-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a way that is kept from the knowledge of others or is designed to escape their notice:

    He later discovered that the couple had secretly married in a discreet ceremony six months ago.

    Many of the wood and stone looks you see in homes every day are secretly vinyl flooring.



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McVeigh was part of an emerging rightwing militia movement that was going after or attacking a corrupt group of people that they believed were secretly running the government from within.

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The Rose Field refers to a magnetic or gravitational field, and was mentioned in the opening chapters of Northern Lights, when scholars at Lyra's Oxford college secretly discussed a mysterious phenomenon called Dust.

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On social media sites, some indignant residents speculated that the acts were committed by unscrupulous developers who “wanted the trees gone” or were orchestrated secretly by the City of Los Angeles.

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Yes, Miller explained, he’d been secretly seeing Ogorodnikova, but only as part of a bold, self-styled plan to infiltrate Soviet intelligence.

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He was splitting his time pretending to grieve her, being secretly committed to me and dating anyone who worked it in a dress and heels.

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