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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 extended sequence in which Hunt and his IMF team attempt to steal vital documents in a top secret handover elevated the series and secured its status as must-watch cinema.
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Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
As his search continues, the mole is selling the top secret information to the highest bidder and gathering enough resources to build a big enough bomb to blow up Manhattan.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 Dec. 2024
Please know that OpenAI keeps its internal AI inner-workings top secret and considers its work to be proprietary.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
But John had not wanted to invite his aunt to their very private — and top secret — wedding on Cumberland Island, off the coast of Georgia, earlier that year, on Sept. 21.
—Liz McNeil, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
As his search continues, the mole is selling the top secret information to the highest bidder and gathering enough resources to build a big enough bomb to blow up Manhattan.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 Dec. 2024
Please know that OpenAI keeps its internal AI inner-workings top secret and considers its work to be proprietary.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
But John had not wanted to invite his aunt to their very private — and top secret — wedding on Cumberland Island, off the coast of Georgia, earlier that year, on Sept. 21.
—Liz McNeil, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for top secret
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The survey is confidential, and no personal information will be collected or shared, county officials said.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
1 Feb. 2025
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The deal has not been finalized yet, according to a person with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be named because the negotiations are confidential.—
Hayden Field,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2025
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Huttle, who the Indianapolis Star reported had an extensive criminal record, had pleaded guilty to entering and remaining in a restricted building in relation to the Capitol attack and was sentenced in November 2023 to six months in prison.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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Today, Evans welcomes Trump’s pardon, even after serving his jail sentence for simple misdemeanors: Entering and remaining in a restricted building.—
Sharyl Attkisson,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Jan. 2025
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In a reply via X/Twitter Spaces, Cardi asks fans to keep her out of Pardi and Megan’s personal business.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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Anya Taylor-Joy turned the sidewalks of New York City into her own personal runway on Tuesday.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
5 Feb. 2025
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Smith himself resigned from the department earlier this month after submitting a two-volume report on the twin investigations into Trump’s efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election and his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.—
Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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Millions of government records related to the Kennedy assassination have been released but some information remains classified and redacted.—
Michael Loria,
USA TODAY,
25 Jan. 2025
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People in certain regions of Minnesota, especially the southeast, have long been at a higher risk of nitrate contamination from their private wells.—
MinnPost,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Acquired some fifteen years ago from a private seller, the unsigned portrait—painted in Paris in 1906—was recently authenticated and published in the Modigliani archive of Rome.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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Its crowd-pleaser potential flies in the face of the IFFR’s reputation in some parts of the industry that the event is focused purely on hardcore arthouse films and more esoteric and niche fare.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 2025
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Certainly, the many other bravura moments of The Return suggest a storyteller with enough juice to make even his most fanciful, esoteric ideas and characters into reality.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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