secret partner

noun

: a partner whose membership in a partnership is kept secret from the public

Examples of secret partner in a Sentence

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And season 6 featured a cast comprised entirely of secret partners. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2023 As Widman settled in, the secret partners adopted a set of principles for rigged algorithms, according to the BND history. Greg Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2020 As the 1970s came to a close, the secret partners decided to find a wizard figure who could help devise more advanced - and less detectable - weaknesses in the algorithms, someone with enough cryptological clout to tame the research department. Greg Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1844, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of secret partner was in 1844

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“Secret partner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secret%20partner. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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