top secret
adjective
1
: protected by a high degree of secrecy
a top secret weapon
a top secret meeting
2
a
: containing or being information whose unauthorized disclosure could result in exceptionally grave danger to the nation
top secret messages
compare confidential, secret
b
: of or relating to top secret documents
a top secret clearance
Examples of top secret in a Sentence
The mission is top secret.
Recent Examples on the Web
Cronin will write and direct the top secret project, one that has been suggested will remain in his horror wheelhouse.
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Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 June 2024
Special Counsel Robert Hur’s findings in his investigation into President Biden having and storing top secret documents did not tell anyone anything new.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2024
The latest comprehensive executive order, issued by President Barack Obama in 2009, lays out three levels of classification—top secret, secret, and confidential—along with a vast array of rules about what each level of classification means.
—Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2021
After a British spy ship carrying a top secret transmitter is sunk off the Albanian coast, 007 races to salvage the wreck before the Russians do.
—Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 29 May 2024
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Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 June 2024
Special Counsel Robert Hur’s findings in his investigation into President Biden having and storing top secret documents did not tell anyone anything new.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2024
The latest comprehensive executive order, issued by President Barack Obama in 2009, lays out three levels of classification—top secret, secret, and confidential—along with a vast array of rules about what each level of classification means.
—Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2021
After a British spy ship carrying a top secret transmitter is sunk off the Albanian coast, 007 races to salvage the wreck before the Russians do.
—Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 29 May 2024
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“Top secret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top%20secret. Accessed 30 Jun. 2024.
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