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Meanings of clandestine in English

Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.

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Usage of clandestine in English
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This clandestine operation, however, required a handshake with a five-dollar bill enclosed.
Funny in Farsi
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With extreme prejudice? He used the jargon of clandestine operatives for effect.
Frozen Heat
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Dulles was well aware that the clandestine service was out of control.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
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For now, however, the clandestine origin of the videos is under wraps.
Wired
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Even with the new 24-hour drinking laws, the greatest lock-ins are clandestine.
The Guardian
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This included the clandestine override circuits Immerman-Ananda had arranged many subyears ago.
Dayworld Breakup
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But it is the vice of the times to contract clandestine marriages.
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 0...
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Hundreds of veterans of the clandestine service declared victory and pulled out.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
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I'd have thought it would be a popular spot for clandestine activities.
Arcadia falls
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Indonesia was Frank Wisner's last operation as chief of the clandestine service.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
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He understood about going clandestine, what it took, and what it involved.
Lola Carlyle Reveals All
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It was rare-veryrare-foranyone to be fired from the clandestine service.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
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Caliph had an immediate gut instinct to terminate the whole clandestine industry.
The last page
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CIA clandestine service histories were obtained through declassification and through unofficial sources.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
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No one should ever know about the clandestine meetings of the lovers.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
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The necessary consequence is a great number of transient and clandestine connections.
Democracy in America — Volume 2
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