top secret
adjective
1
: protected by a high degree of secrecy
a top secret weapon
a top secret meeting
2
a
: containing or being information whose unauthorized disclosure could result in exceptionally grave danger to the nation
top secret messages
compare confidential, secret
b
: of or relating to top secret documents
a top secret clearance
Examples of top secret in a Sentence
The mission is top secret.
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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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“Top secret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top%20secret. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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