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in secret

Unknown to others, privately. For example, They met in secret, or, as Shakespeare put it in Love's Labour's Lost (5:2): “One word in secret.” [Second half of 1400s]

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Grand juries are held in secret and transcripts of such proceedings only become public if an indictment is returned against the target of the hearing.

From Los Angeles Times

Abortions happen, but in secret and only for those who can afford it.

From Salon

Roughly half all the small boats crossing the Channel are now so-called "taxi-boats" - a police source told us - launched with few or no passengers and in secret.

From BBC

That is far below estimates heard in secret in the High Court in May 2024, which said it could cost "several billions".

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His visits to small rural villages occupied by the Russians are often carried out in secret.

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