I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a closely-guarded secret
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Details of the program are a closely-guarded secret .
a secret ambition
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His secret ambition was to become a pilot.
a secret code
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the secret codes used during the two world wars
a secret diary (= that no one else knows about or reads )
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He found his sister’s secret diary.
a secret message
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a secret message written in lemon juice
a secret passage
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The bookcase moved to reveal a secret passage.
an open secret (= it is supposed to be secret, but most people know about it )
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It is an open secret that she is having an affair with another man.
closely guarded secret
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a closely guarded secret
confidential/secret
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That information was confidential and should not have been passed on.
divulge information/secrets/details etc (to sb)
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It is not company policy to divulge personal details of employees.
keep...secret
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You won’t be able to keep it secret for ever.
secret admirer
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a secret admirer
secret agent
secret ballot
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The party leader is elected by secret ballot .
secret ballot
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The chairman was elected by secret ballot.
secret police
secret rendezvous
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plans for a secret rendezvous
secret service
tell sb a secret
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I offered to tell her my secret if she didn’t tell anyone else.
the secret of sb's success (= what makes them successful )
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A visitor asked Connie the secret of her success with growing roses.
trade secret
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The Coca-Cola formula is a well-kept trade secret.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agent
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Jack had specifically asked his secret agent to confine himself to a couple of current photographs and Polly's address.
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They say that the better the secret agent , the less one hears about him.
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It was not every night, she reflected, that she dined with a secret agent .
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Story: A team of secret agents battles double-crossing spies and arms dealers.
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Even the bureaucrats involved took to playing games and devising ruses, for all the world like secret agents themselves.
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The secret agent in his place, he wrote, the infiltrator safely ensconced.
ballot
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On Oct. 27 the central committee proposed that multi-candidate elections with secret ballots be obligatory.
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The elections are by secret ballot , and an absolute majority is required.
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Gorbachev's re-election as general secretary Gorbachev was re-elected general secretary on July 10 by secret ballot .
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An election by secret ballot shall be held. 3.
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He voted against church disestablishment in Ireland, also against the secret ballot , though for temperance reform.
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The secret ballot gave these students their first free opportunity to express opposition.
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Such a decision, taken through the prescribed secret ballot procedures, could ultimately be imposed by parents on a governing body.
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Under the Agricultural Labor Relations Act, elections are by secret ballot .
code
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And we proved it by cracking the manufacturers' secret codes .
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The journal comes with eight secret codes to protect privacy.
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We've got to talk in secret codes , like the P-Funk codes.
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There were secret caches, secret trails, secret codes , secret missions, secret terrors and appetites and longings and regrets.
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His days of peering into the secret codes of foreign nations, he feared, were over for ever.
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She was shouting again, trying to tell Glover something in her secret code .
compartment
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The Ramsland had secret compartments below decks but the Coast Guard knew all about those secret compartments.
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Put a copy in your locked desk drawer and another in the secret compartment of your briefcase.
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The Ramsland had secret compartments below decks but the Coast Guard knew all about those secret compartments.
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Detecting secret compartments remains a challenge for immigration inspectors, Ward said.
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The secret compartment was ten feet long, the same as the bathroom, but only three feet wide.
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He learned how to work the truck's secret compartments .
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The mind does not play tricks with us; it holds no secret compartments .
deal
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He has called for the compulsory registration of all property transactions in an attempt to stop the use of secret deals .
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Morris signed his secret deal with Random House almost exactly a year ago.
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Equally notable figures will spring to the defence of the secret deal , however.
garden
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As you walk through the door, however, you see something that exists nowhere else: a secret garden .
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That is to say it is a secret garden .
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She would have all summer in the secret garden before he came back.
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Nothing, other than ownership and the secret garden , appears to distinguish them from the other tenants around them.
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The next day Mary met Dickon as usual in the secret garden , and told him about Colin.
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The monastic cloisters enclose a medieval-style secret garden and an ancient stone fountain carved with fantastic beasts!
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Sadly, space is often lacking for the ideal secret garden .
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At last she was inside the secret garden !
information
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However, bear in mind that the secret information which I have imparted to you can be a defence against rapists.
ingredient
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And what a sauce.The secret ingredient for the latest taste in cheese.
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Every other layer is spinach noodles, and the secret ingredient is the fifth cheese.
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He extracted their blood and their vital juices and boiled them up with mercury and potassium and other, secret ingredients .
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They began to assemble a whole lot more than secret ingredients .
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Meanwhile the 600 secret ingredients in cigarettes are to be published by the Health Department, writes Kevin Maguire.
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There also are secret ingredients that she will not divulge.
life
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This proved some consolation for the ever-present insecurity Jean-Claude's secret life imposed on me.
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I think his real secret life was more innocent, and at the same time more subtle.
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But his secret life was contracting as East/West tensions slackened.
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In the bright early pages, the author stitches life and secret life exuberantly though sometimes roughly together.
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Something about the place is summed up in its smell - the secret life of a space.
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It made him feel good to know she was living a secret life , just like he was.
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The secret life of an embezzler.
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It was a death without dignity, a random fall through the cracks of a secret life .
meeting
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We had staked out the war memorial where the secret meeting was destined to occur.
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There have been no secret meetings of the Democrat majority to pick and choose personnel.
negotiation
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Early in 1202 secret negotiations had already begun between Otto and Innocent.
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Henry Kissinger was also confounded and frustrated by the Communists during his secret negotiations with them.
passage
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He'd like to know the location of the secret passages in the kitchen and bedrooms.
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It is like a secret passage , bringing Deptford workers north of the river, taking them home again at night.
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He built secret passages underground, and his secret house on the lake.
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I don't feel alarmed as I know of many secret passages , but they have all become too small to use.
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It is as though there were a secret passage underneath the knife-edge.
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But that secret passage contains a one-way valve: there is an asymmetry.
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And I was sure there was a secret passage because the walls were so old and thick.
place
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It was not that he had found the one secret place where the Author could not see him.
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Rather dance in a secret place ?
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Once he saw a glade, a secret place with a floor of pale, sandy soil.
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Los Alamos, the most secret place in the world when he was born.
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Burning out the shames, the deepest, oldest shames, in the most secret places .
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Everyone under-stands that the senate is a dark place , a secret place, a place not unlike a cesspool!
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It was a most secret place .
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I think there must be some secret place , like where elephants gather to die.
plan
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It was clear that Rupert of Hentzau had his own secret plans for that night.
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We had no secret plan to make hits.
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It was her secret plan in action, of course.
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While the people in the neighborhood spent and rebuilt, City Hall proceeded with its secret plan .
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After a few days, I found the boys making secret plans behind a bush.
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I have no secret plan for world domination.
police
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And that would get us back to castor oil and the secret police .
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Naturally, the secret police and the military leaders were men, and they subjected their female prisoners to sexually specific tortures.
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Makarenko had better relations with the local secret police than with any other official authority.
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What are you, secret police ?
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Anton Tkalec, coin dealer in Vienna, now in Zurich, and some ex-members of the secret police and army establishment.
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The deadline for the surrender of the Securitate secret police was only a few hours ago.
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The secret police of your childhood were older and wiser than you, bigger than you.
recipe
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No one has ever discovered the secret recipe for army tea.
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Is there some secret recipe for roasting whole potatoes?
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He is Dieter Schmidt and his secret recipe keeps him awake for the 20-hour flights.
service
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That is the means by which we control the operations of our secret services .
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A secret service contact told Mark Gutteridge that Margaret Thatcher would have seen the information.
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And Jack Stone had slipped the police and secret service web.
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The two, who have pleaded not guilty, deny working as secret service agents.
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Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim.
smile
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He had been watching Cardiff, and now that infuriating secret smile registered again.
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He smiles a few secret smiles and shakes his head when Anne and Millie look at him.
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His secret smile that just exposed his teeth.
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Was there a secret smile hovering about his mouth?
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Then Miss Foley, the Director's secretary, calm and self-possessed, wearing always that secret smile .
society
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Selvon and I, like members of some secret society were always together.
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Can secret societies be prohibited in public schools?
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The Mafia was supposed to be originally a subversive secret society .
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Silly though it may have seemed at first, these all-male secret societies are bastions of extraordinary power and influence.
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Ramsay's other secret society , the Right Club, was also ostensibly closed down at the outbreak of war.
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The Boxer rebellion of 1900, led by a secret society with mysterious and terrifying rituals, was motivated solely by xenophobia.
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It's absolutely horrible but Malcolm would insist on taking you there because it made him feel part of some secret society .
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It was years since he had read it but he thought Jung had said something about the universal need for secret societies .
weapon
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His secret weapon has been a three-wood he first used last June.
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And Bannister, who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet, could be Cadle's secret weapon .
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Further, there was the frightening possibility of new secret weapons .
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So long as she stayed silent she had a secret weapon .
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Yet Drake had been aided by a secret weapon .
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But his real secret weapon is an amazing talent for simultaneously combining slide with fretted notes.
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The next day she carried her secret weapon to school in her satchel.
world
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It was their own secret world , and they did not let me into it again.
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These excursions in the dark were like a door to another world-the secret world of mice and shrews and moles and voles.
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To some they're simply an engaging fantasy, but for others they create a secret world that can last a lifetime.
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The secret world of organized labor.
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Tatham might have been a natural but Magill had been the achiever in the secret world .
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It is immensely difficult for outsiders to begin to assess the efficiency of the secret world .
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And a matter of days for Fergie and her friend's secret world to be shattered.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
keep a secret
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Can you keep a secret?
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Most humans are not very good at keeping secrets.
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Richie was in the know but the plan was kept a secret from Midge and Stevie.
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The private key, used to encrypt transmitted information by the user, is kept secret.
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The public key is used to decrypt information at the receiver and is not kept secret.
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The relationship was not kept secret from her supervisors.
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The state gave them to visiting businessmen whose names are being kept secret.
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What happened a few miles away was kept secret.
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Zhang was killed instantly, although his death was kept secret for a few days.
the secret police
the secret service
unlock the secrets/mysteries of sth
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Scientists succeeded in unlocking the secrets to polio's cause.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Secret documents containing details of Britain's defence plans have been stolen.
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secret information
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a senior member of the secret service
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He hid the fact that he was a secret drinker from his employees for many years.
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He made a secret trip to the White House in order to secure an agreement.
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Her secret fear was that Jim would find out where she was living.
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I actually think he's pr9bably a secret Republican voter.
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I had a secret ambition to return to politics.
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I hope you see how vital it is that our conversation remains secret .
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Psychologists say that dreams can reveal our secret desires.
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She was kept under surveillance by the secret police for over three years.
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The experiments were top secret .
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The film tells the story of a Swiss secret agent who masquerades as a grocer in order to uncover a drugs ring.
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The Leader of the House will be selected by secret ballot.
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The letter was written in a secret code.
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The president's schedule is secret , but there is speculation that he will visit UN troops in the area.
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Williams' diaries reveal all his secret hopes and fears.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Sloan would not say who had ordered him to make the secret payments.
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He had avoided detection during the war, when for wholly different reasons he was murdered by the Saigon secret police.
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In February 1990 more secret files were found at both the Defence and Justice Ministries.
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Judges in their secret chambers ask other questions.
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The secret , almost inaccessible haven where the black-robed savants hoarded the wisdom that sustained the people of Arcadia.
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The rock is also riddled with tunnels, some of which come out at secret entrances in the forest below.
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They say that the better the secret agent, the less one hears about him.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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What is there, some big secret about who they are?
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Moms have always worked, but it was a big secret left out of the history books.
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Whats the big secret ??????
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But that big , awful secret from her past prevents Lisa from fully accepting his love.
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That is my big secret with Ken.
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Seemed proud of himself for having found out, because he said it's supposed to be the planet's big secret .
dark
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The terrible face showed the dark secrets of his life.
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A sexy female boss hiding dark family secrets from her past and using her street smarts to get even.
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Dennis Reason, a bank manager with dark secrets .
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You told your partner your deepest, darkest childhood secret in confidence.
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It was as if he had released some dark and terrible secret which had been boiling within him.
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I was fascinated by Elvira because she had no family and because she seemed to know the darkest secrets .
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It leads to death and a scandalous murder inquiry which threatens to expose some dark secrets .
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Did one of our four women have a dark secret ?
great
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The great secret about Steve Forbes is that he is a lifelong member of the political establishment.
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Did he possess some great secret ?
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Reveal to me the great secret .
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The great secret which life has kept from us is that once born, life is immortal.
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Now, I see you have the great inner secret , too.
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Our great secret with Python was we got rid of punchlines.
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But that was no great secret .
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This is one of the great inner secrets of sports.
innermost
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I will show you the innermost secret of life.
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In effect, White House aides were assigned to tell reporters the innermost secrets of the Administration.
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Their innermost secrets had been at the mercy of the West for a year.
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The only person he would allow into his innermost secrets - and then only occasionally - was Lou.
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It deserves a book to itself, and a fat volume it would be when all its innermost secrets are known.
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Charles and Camilla have called each other many times over their years of friendship, spending hours sharing their innermost secrets .
kept
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So too did a handful of his closest friends though, for once, this was a rightly kept secret .
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Male speaker I regard it as the best kept secret .
little
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Nigel tried to confront her with her little secret that evening.
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The little secret no one lets out is that what one does after putting on the badge is not all that exciting.
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Yes, the little secret is out.
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Gore has made little secret of his own ambitions.
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But tell me, Joe, how did you guess our little secret ?
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He thinks of this as his little secret .
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It was what he always called her when they were alone, their little secret , a token of his affection.
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Let me tell you a few little secrets about study habits.
official
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He mumbled about official secrets and civil service discipline.
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The scientists have used a model to test the technology, which was an official secret until recently.
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The crime is to disclose an official secret , probably even if extracted from the accused at the point of a pistol.
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Full scale reform of official secrets legislation is still very much a topic of current debate.
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The Government's official secrets legislation in 1989 was guillotined after only two days in committee in the lower House.
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It had few civil servants and therefore few official secrets .
open
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It is an open secret that he and Reg Pybus are bosom pals.
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It was an open secret that the marriage had become a complete sham, Watson.
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It is an open secret , however, that soldiers are not to arrest war criminals they encounter.
top
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An almost finished game of snakes and ladders was laid out amongst top secret briefing papers.
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The Bawdsey experiments were top secret .
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His cheesemaker is situated on the outskirts of the village, but he keeps names top secret from the culinary competition.
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The developments remain top secret and no-one from the factory or the team would confirm or deny the existence of the kit.
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The plans incorporate several revolutionary new concepts which, for obvious reasons, must be kept top secret .
■ NOUN
business
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There are generally two possible valid interests on which he may rely; special trade connections and business secrets .
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Moreover in the area of business secrets there may be a different approach.
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Two types of contractual provision are commonly used for the purpose of protecting business secrets .
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Firstly there are undertakings to maintain the confidentiality of business secrets and not to use them except for limited purposes.
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However, this type of business secrets clause suffers from the problem of detecting breach.
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Therefore, the basic question was: what were business secrets ?
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However the courts have consistently recognised the interest that the employer or any other covenantee has in protecting business secrets .
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However, the employee is still prevented from betraying his employer's business secrets .
state
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Architectural plans are not local authority or state secrets .
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The breakdown of discipline and morale in the professional officer corps is hardly a state secret .
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The charges included conspiracy, espionage, revealing state secrets and threatening the Constitution.
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I said that throughout history a number of great leaders had kept matters of state secret even from their wives.
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There were no state secrets involved.
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In a written order, Yeltsin charged his erstwhile buddy with slandering the president and his family and disclosing state secrets .
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This is the body that, supposedly protecting state secrets , issues lists of forbidden subjects.
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The information used to be a state secret .
trade
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Only those manufacturing steps that involve trade secrets are kept in-house.
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The 75 undisclosed classified documents include trade secrets obtained from companies that asked them to be kept confidential.
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He says they're trade secrets and Jaws is just a trout compared to a Zander.
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The Court of Appeal considered that the information did not amount to a trade secret .
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It might cover secret processes and trade secrets. 5.
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In terms of writing computer software, a program to automate an existing manual process will probably not be considered a trade secret .
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Confidential information Every company has confidential information and trade secrets .
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The task force will concentrate on rooting out theft of trade secrets and high-tech components, particularly integrated circuits.
■ VERB
discover
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He held her head more tightly as her lips discovered more secrets .
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In 1706, August hired E.W. von Tschirnhaus to discover the secret .
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Success was very limited until, in the summer of 1983, a colleague discovered the secret .
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I have at last discovered the true secret to quitting smoking.
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Only five people lived on the island, so I could work alone, and nobody would discover my awful secret .
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When the two sets of parents discovered the secret , they were livid.
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He both hated it and loved it, and he became more and more afraid that some one would discover his secret .
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It occurred to me that here in my old street I might discover the secret of time.
divulge
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Death was the alleged penalty for those who divulged the secrets of the order.
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You just didn't say those sort of things, or divulge such secrets , about your wife.
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However the Phoenix Guard never divulge their secrets and no one has ever seen the Chamber of Days and lived.
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Perhaps she could seal their reconciliation by divulging her secret .
guard
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Maybe the time has come when they will now pass on the secret that they have so jealously guarded .
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For more than forty years his existence had been a closely guarded secret .
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The squad is a closely-\#guarded secret , although Steve McManaman has been told he will be needed in Birmingham.
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His smoking had been one of the most closely guarded secrets of the campaign.
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Most of all, her image was private, a guarded secret: it was all the privacy she had.
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The winning design was chosen a few months ago and has been a closely guarded secret .
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The priests guarded their secrets well by living highly secluded lives, usually in monasteries adjacent to their observatories.
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Details of the program are closely guarded secrets .
hide
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They were carefully guarded, as if they hid secrets he didn't intend ever to reveal to anyone.
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Its mission is to reveal the hidden cultural secrets of ancient cookware, among other things.
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I stopped to look at them, and thought for a moment they looked like prison doors, hiding evil secrets .
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A sexy female boss hiding dark family secrets from her past and using her street smarts to get even.
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From Druidic lore to the Christmas kiss, bird and berry hid secrets in the winter night.
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The former wants to hide its secret from the world; the latter wants to hide it from the nation.
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Blue eyes met black, the unfathomable deep waters of which hid countless secrets .
hold
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The report said that the trials generally lacked any due process of law and most were held in secret .
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Claudio is the world. weary bachelor, independently wealthy, and convinced that life holds no more secrets for him.
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Lessing held many secrets inside his narrow head, and this was one more.
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The candidates' true electoral strategies, however, are closely held secrets .
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In that code could be genes that hold the secrets of higher yields, better pest-resistance and richer nourishment.
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It means he holds the secrets .
keep
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Most humans are not very good at keeping secrets .
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The relationship was not kept secret from her supervisors.
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It was not the diplomats but the politicians who kept agreements secret .
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The Sphinx could keep his secret , we decided.
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I have asked him to keep the matter secret .
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I said that throughout history a number of great leaders had kept matters of state secret even from their wives.
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Maura had been seeing Terry for nearly five months, and miraculously had managed to keep him a secret .
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Don't husbands sometimes keep huge secrets from their wives?
know
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If he died he would never know its secret , or what it had contained.
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And you are the only person apart from Pepe who knows my secret .
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Every time we think we know all about the secrets of insects, the insects tell us something new.
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Suddenly I was sure that I knew the secret of life.
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I know a little about your secret .
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Only Jasper knew my secret , and that is what it was, a secret.
learn
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Everybody was surprised to see Anne with very short hair, but no one learned the secret .
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The poor farmer spent a joyful year in her company, during which he learned many wonderful secrets .
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Pool wants to learn its secrets .
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Prospective software developers had to learn the secrets of the toolbox so they could follow the guidelines for human interface.
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Can they reach his brain in time, obliterate the clot, and learn the secrets the man holds?
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For obvious reasons Jim could not conduct a public courtship, and so he learned to make a secret of his movements.
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If we could only learn his secret , Implexion thought, staring into the moonlit darkness of Inanna's bedroom.
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He learned other secrets of success in the humor trade from experience.
make
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They know about her, of course: I made no secret of it.
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The people of the North made no secret of their dismay over the way things were going.
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He had never made any secret of the fact that he thought Jack's life choices incomprehensible.
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They broke or brushed aside the obstacles that stood in their way, and made no secret of paying any necessary bribes.
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The bank had made no secret of their dismay over Virgin's venture into airlines.
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Gore has made little secret of his own ambitions.
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She became a tireless champion of Aurangzeb's interests, making little secret of her hatred for Dara and Jahanara.
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Women made no secret about why staying single was better than getting married.
pass
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It suggests there was an Oxford spy ring in the 1930s which passed secrets to the Soviet Union.
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They may after all have been passing secrets to Soviet agents.
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If only she was alive today to pass on the secrets of her success.
protect
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He realised that Marion's reticence was to protect the secret of her love affair with Ronald Travis.
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How can you protect your inventions and secrets ?
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The first would be to protect Britain's own secrets by developing the necessary cipher machines, codes and operating procedures.
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A prudent employer will always have an express contractual term protecting business secrets .
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He's protecting the secret of the Durances.
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Yesterday's ruling suggests companies seeking to protect their commercial secrets may have a case under Section 10.
remain
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She added that a second company had also been given approval, but had asked for their name to remain secret .
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Details of the frame remain a secret .
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Precisely what was said between them to prompt the scuffle remains a fairly well-kept secret , but conditions certainly were incendiary enough.
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What had passed through his mind in the baggage-room at Royalbion House would remain his own personal secret .
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My secrets will remain my secrets.
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Most remain secret , but a handful have been revealed in memoirs or by loquacious retirees.
reveal
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The charges included conspiracy, espionage, revealing state secrets and threatening the Constitution.
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Its mission is to reveal the hidden cultural secrets of ancient cookware, among other things.
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I resolved to find that machine, and reveal its secrets to all.
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But why Zeus changed his mind and whether Prometheus revealed the secret when he was freed, we do not know.
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Read in studio One of the oldest people in Britain has revealed her secret: a drop of Brandy in her tea.
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He did not reveal his secret to his brothers, or to any of his friends in his village.
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The objects we use to do these mundane tasks each day reveal the inner secrets of domestic life.
sell
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Intel officials were afraid Gaede would sell the secrets to a foreign company that could use the information to clone Pentium chips.
share
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Their heads were together: friends sharing a secret .
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She then looks at me shyly and smiles as though she has shared a secret .
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Fortunately, the Ndembu are generously prepared to share the secrets of this symbolism with us.
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The poem is not the depository for the feelings and reactions of the poet trying to share secrets with the reader.
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They all shared each other's secret .
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Sam was glad that he'd never invited him to share Evelyn's secrets .
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In terms of sharing secrets , with the Democrats there were no secrets.
steal
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Nils had told her Madreidetic hadn't yet stolen the secret of imminence-awareness from the Company but that was no reassurance.
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The Pentagon claims Kevin Lee Poulssen, 28, stole military secrets .
tell
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It's as if you're the first person she's told her secret to in years.
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We had to be shushed and calmed down when we got hysterical laughing and telling secrets and making jokes.
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Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else.
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In effect, White House aides were assigned to tell reporters the innermost secrets of the Administration.
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During the month of October 1974 Karen told nobody about her secret , but she felt very lonely.
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One guy who has been very successful at it once told me his secret of success.
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Shall I tell you a secret ?
unlock
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I unlocked the secret , so to speak.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A scientist has been arrested for revealing state secrets concerning chemical weapons.
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Come over here, Luke wants to tell you a secret .
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His whereabouts are a closely-guarded secret .
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Hollywood stars reveal their beauty secrets in next month's edition.
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I'm not supposed to be telling you this, it's a secret .
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I can't tell you that - it's a secret .
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I don't know what her secret is but she always gets top marks in exams.
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It's one of those family secrets that we don't talk about much.
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Mr. Ritchie, you're a millionaire at the age of twenty. What's the secret of your success?
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Only Jasper knew my secret .
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The task force will concentrate on stopping the theft of trade secrets.
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We lived in a small village and I knew that the news wouldn't remain a secret for very long.
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Yes, the secret 's out I'm afraid. I'm to be a grandmother.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gore has made little secret of his own ambitions.
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Her well-kept secret finally was revealed Tuesday.
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I know a little about your secret .
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Jenny and Michael Aldous, who garden here, have obviously hit upon the secret of colour throughout the summer.
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The men at his level were spawning secrets that quivered like reptile eggs.
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We had chanced across one of the best-kept secrets of the Rockies, the danger from bears.
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You cease to be yourself, you become your secret .