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Recent Examples of closed-door
After Trump's closed-door meeting with Zelenskyy, the two presidents walked to a different part of the White House where seven other European leaders were waiting.
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Kyler Alvord, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Court filings for a case seeking the removal of three Keller school board trustees under the same Local Government Code statute put Davis at the center of closed-door discussions last year on the legal process for splitting the district.
—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Aug. 2025
November 12, 2024 In a reversal, the Biden administration tells environmental groups in a closed-door meeting that the U.S. will no longer back production caps as part of the plastics treaty.
—Joseph Winters, Wired News, 16 Aug. 2025
In a press conference after the closed-door talk, Trump appeared to publicly reject U.S. intelligence community findings of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and to accept Putin's denial of the interference.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
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Kyler Alvord, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Court filings for a case seeking the removal of three Keller school board trustees under the same Local Government Code statute put Davis at the center of closed-door discussions last year on the legal process for splitting the district.
—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Aug. 2025
November 12, 2024 In a reversal, the Biden administration tells environmental groups in a closed-door meeting that the U.S. will no longer back production caps as part of the plastics treaty.
—Joseph Winters, Wired News, 16 Aug. 2025
In a press conference after the closed-door talk, Trump appeared to publicly reject U.S. intelligence community findings of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and to accept Putin's denial of the interference.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for closed-door
Adjective
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But through time, trust and many off-the-record conversations, those six people helped create a foundation that would eventually lead them to the CEOs.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Mar. 2026
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The 21-page agreement prohibits the gathering or publication of any information that is not authorized by the government, including declassified information and off-the-record conversations, whether obtained on or off Pentagon grounds.—
Gary Grumbach,
NBC news,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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In 1985, Marty McFly (played by Lucas Hallauer) is a skateboarding high schooler who is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a time machine — ensconced in a DeLorean sports car — by nutty off-the-books scientist Doc Brown (David Josefsberg).—
Rod Stafford Hagwood,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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The eponymous security droid protagonist (played by Alexander Skarsgård) actually chose its own name and, thanks to some off-the-books hacking, developed free will.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
22 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Emergency passports handed off at clandestine locations.—
Shannon K. Kingston,
ABC News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Jerkins’ family operation included his cousin, Robert Smith, known as Big Bert, with whom Brandy began a clandestine relationship as the recording progressed.—
Jackson Howard,
Pitchfork,
29 Mar. 2026
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The source said that such a view has been communicated to the Cubans in the ongoing back-channel talks.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2026
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Both the president’s team and the rule-of-law defenders launched back-channel negotiations with the capitalists.—
Michael Scherer,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Closed-door.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/closed-door. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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