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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None of this was top secret: the M.L.B.’s website already posts the relative rate at which players connect the barrel of the bat with the ball.
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Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Jared Kushner’s security clearance Trump overruled intelligence officials in 2018 to grant his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a top secret security clearance, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post.
—Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
At one point, House Intelligence ranking member Jim Himes (D-Conn.) pulled up the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s own classification guidance, which says advance warning of an attack should be labeled as top secret.
—Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 28 Mar. 2025
Tom Krause — a technology executive who is a member of Musk's DOGE team and is working on a review of the payment system — has also been granted a top secret security clearance, according to the letter.
—Richard Escobedo, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2025
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Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Jared Kushner’s security clearance Trump overruled intelligence officials in 2018 to grant his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a top secret security clearance, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post.
—Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
At one point, House Intelligence ranking member Jim Himes (D-Conn.) pulled up the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s own classification guidance, which says advance warning of an attack should be labeled as top secret.
—Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 28 Mar. 2025
Tom Krause — a technology executive who is a member of Musk's DOGE team and is working on a review of the payment system — has also been granted a top secret security clearance, according to the letter.
—Richard Escobedo, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Top secret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top%20secret. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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