adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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meeting
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Constant surveillance, clandestine meetings and the arrest of family and friends are part of everyday life.
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But now her need of him was desperate and unashamed, and their clandestine meetings were not enough.
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She deserved better than these clandestine meetings .
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How many new contracts would he get if it came out that guests of his had held clandestine meetings with wanted men?
operation
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Why had Brückner died, putting the clandestine operation at the Amtel clinic at risk?
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But this was supposed to be a clandestine operation , and if things went wrong, they would go wrong in secret.
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As the newspaper's special correspondent with Franco and his troops, Philby had a watertight cover for his clandestine operations .
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Congressional watchdog committees specifically told Allen Dulles they did not want to know about clandestine operations .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a clandestine meeting
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His clandestine meetings with PLO officials had been secretly recorded.
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The doctor was arrested after she was named as a member of a clandestine socialist movement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there were enough to constitute an underground community, a clandestine network of social outcasts and émigrés.
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Gedge later became much more clandestine and unpretentious when asked about the lyrical content of his songs.
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He'd expected a clandestine rendezvous - curtained windows, locked doors - not a gypsy encampment.
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That the jumps are often illegal has kept the society clandestine and elite.
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The result of weeks of clandestine planning sat now inside the bedside cupboard.
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Thus he is forced to lead a clandestine existence, abandoned only when he occasionally reappears to demand money from his wife.
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To turn this into some clandestine meeting in the middle of the ocean...