as in concealment
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Noun
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But their stealth around the giant Google edifice had nonetheless taken Mokenen by surprise.—
Astha Rajvanshi,
NBC news,
30 June 2025 -
Victims are forced to use stealth and their wits to evade the terrifying hunters.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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An especially Jewish theme in the seventeenth century was not only the necessity but the dignity of subterfuge; to have lived in the shadows of another people’s empire had a nobility of its own, captured in this exquisite and ambivalent image.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
19 July 2025
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People generally might not realize the subterfuge at play.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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Take the two pages where Dyer writes about his father’s extreme reticence about his own past.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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The more acute risk — and, sources say, the primary reason for Trump’s reticence to act against Powell — is the expectation that any move would immediately trigger a significant market sell-off.—
Phil Mattingly,
CNN Money,
11 July 2025
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“Covertness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/covertness. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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