as in confidential
kept completely hidden from the public by high government officials
top secret documents The mission is top secret.
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Recent Examples of top secret
The name’s Bezos… Jeff Bezos: Much like a Bond mission, the 007 news was kept top secret.
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
Guantanamo's sordid past includes top secret torture facilities, the inhumane treatment of Haitian asylum seekers fleeing political violence, a concentration camp for people with HIV, and ongoing brutalization of Muslim detainees after 9/11 who were famously waterboarded and otherwise tortured.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
Birmingham, meanwhile, have special plans of their own, including a live performance — the details remain top secret — and a mind-boggling array of pre-match pyrotechnics.
—Gregg Evans, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
Veltri was leading the South Florida office when Trump was indicted in June 2023 on charges of withholding top secret documents from the U.S. government and conspiring with two of his Mar-a-Lago employees to obstruct efforts to retrieve them.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
Guantanamo's sordid past includes top secret torture facilities, the inhumane treatment of Haitian asylum seekers fleeing political violence, a concentration camp for people with HIV, and ongoing brutalization of Muslim detainees after 9/11 who were famously waterboarded and otherwise tortured.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
Birmingham, meanwhile, have special plans of their own, including a live performance — the details remain top secret — and a mind-boggling array of pre-match pyrotechnics.
—Gregg Evans, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
Veltri was leading the South Florida office when Trump was indicted in June 2023 on charges of withholding top secret documents from the U.S. government and conspiring with two of his Mar-a-Lago employees to obstruct efforts to retrieve them.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for top secret
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The size of the total reserve is confidential, but estimates are commonly in the hundreds of millions of tons.—
Scott L. Montgomery,
The Conversation,
11 Mar. 2025
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and a federal-district court both ruled that prosecutors had not violated Holberg's rights by failing to disclose Kirkpatrick's status as a confidential informant.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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Terms were not announced, but the three-year veteran made $985,000 last season as an exclusive-rights free agent with the Atlanta Falcons, who opted not to tender him a contract as a restricted free agent.—
Iliana Limón Romero,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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So, at least for now, Romanov, a pending restricted free agent, figures to remain with the Sharks.—
Curtis Pashelka,
The Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Human Factor The avalanche awareness community is all about focusing on personal biases, communication, and group dynamics.—
Ashley Thess,
Outdoor Life,
14 Mar. 2025
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Imagine a digital version of a personal sales associate who has known you for years and has a deep understanding of your preferences.—
Jonathan Nikols,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Cases relating to his role in seeking to prevent the peaceful transfer of power and Espionage Act charges related to his retention of classified documents were both dismissed after his November victory.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
14 Mar. 2025
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His claim that the Justice Department had been weaponized during the Biden administration overlooked that there were investigations during that time into Biden’s mishandling of classified information and into the firearms and tax affairs of his son Hunter.—
Alanna Durkin Richer,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Officers are being compensated for their time through a private contract with UnitedHealthcare, according to the KSTP report.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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The content creator has since made her Instagram private and appears to have deactivated her TikTok (samstrays_somewhere) account.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Cordelia Cupp is a collector of esoteric information and her desire to learn things about the White House while also learning things about a crime borders on charming.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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The esoteric will never sit completely comfortably in the mainstream, because that’s the point of it: to be unusual, bizarre, absurd.—
Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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