as in confidential
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
Palantir’s products will be deployed in Microsoft’s Azure cloud for government, including clouds for top secret use.
—Britney Nguyen and Vinamrata Chaturvedi contributed to this article.
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Josh Fellman, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2025
The documents, marked top secret, were posted to the Telegram messaging app in October.
—Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2024
The name’s Bezos… Jeff Bezos: Much like a Bond mission, the 007 news was kept top secret.
—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
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Josh Fellman, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2025
The documents, marked top secret, were posted to the Telegram messaging app in October.
—Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2024
The name’s Bezos… Jeff Bezos: Much like a Bond mission, the 007 news was kept top secret.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for top secret
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Trombetta — whose position afforded him access to confidential data, criminal investigative information and trade secrets — resigned from the gaming commission in December 2024 and went to lobby for FanDuel later that month as their director of government relations.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
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Federal prosecutors in California charged Buma Tuesday with one count of disclosure of confidential information.—
Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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So, at least for now, Romanov, a pending restricted free agent, figures to remain with the Sharks.—
Curtis Pashelka,
The Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Terms were not announced, but the three-year veteran made $985,000 last season as an exclusive-rights free agent with the Atlanta Falcons, who opted not to tender him a contract as a restricted free agent.—
Iliana Limón Romero,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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As a business owner, fostering an environment that promotes positivity, whether through workplace culture, networking, or personal mindset, can directly impact financial decision-making and success.—
Shane Enete,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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This was born out of a total devastation to all of us on a very personal level, and their performances are very distinctively their own.—
Max Gao,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2025
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The Pentagon hasn’t said whether Hegseth declassified the attack plans before or after the Signal conversation, but Ratcliffe, Gabbard and the White House have all said the chats contained no classified information.—
David Klepper,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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Mar-a-Lago documents Upon leaving the White House after his 2020 election loss, Trump brought classified information with him to his estate in Mar-a-Lago, according to a criminal indictment that a federal grand jury handed down in 2023.—
Erin Mansfield,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2025
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With respect to a private creditor pursuing relief in state court, the answer is yes.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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NewsGuard has been a target of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, even though the federal agency does not have regulatory jurisdiction over the private rating service.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025
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Cordelia Cupp is a collector of esoteric information and her desire to learn things about the White House while also learning things about a crime borders on charming.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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The esoteric will never sit completely comfortably in the mainstream, because that’s the point of it: to be unusual, bizarre, absurd.—
Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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