How to Use trade secret in a Sentence

trade secret

noun
  • Did Tom Cruise share any trade secrets with you?
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The second day will be closed to the public to shield trade secrets.
    — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Here are some of their trade secrets for making a room go from drab and heavy to bright and light.
    — Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 12 May 2026
  • There’s not going to be any trade secrets that are going to be exchanged.
    — Ben Morse, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The brand is somewhat of a trade secret for sport fishermen and surfers alike.
    — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 13 July 2023
  • Any piece of magic that betrayed a trade secret was off-limits.
    — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Last month, Joby sued Archer over trade secrets.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025
  • There are still laws on the books that protect companies’ trade secrets.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The company claimed the number was a trade secret.
    — Ira Goldstein, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The next piece of this puzzle would be a discussion of patents versus trade secrets.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2024
  • The question for jurors is whether that evidence amounts to a trade secret?
    — Peter Holley, chicagotribune.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Schools are able to find these loopholes for public records laws for protecting trade secrets.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 14 Nov. 2018
  • The agency had claimed the records were trade secrets and exempt from Ohio's public records law.
    — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
  • The blend of electrolyte and additives is what ends up being the subject of trade secrets.
    — Wired, 23 Sep. 2019
  • In the case of Huawei, the DOJ is citing theft of trade secrets.
    — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Worse, the costs sometimes fall hardest on workers who pose no plausible threat to trade secrets.
    — Morris M. Kleiner, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • On top of that, Waymo has sued Uber, alleging theft of trade secrets.
    — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Despite his silence on those trade secrets, the podcast is worth listening to.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Fragrances are considered a trade secret and, therefore, do not have to be disclosed.
    — Olivia Fleming & Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Amazon declined to release some specifics on the device, citing trade secrets.
    — Alan Levin, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
  • The court filing redacted key figures to protect Google's trade secrets.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
  • What isn’t up for debate is what exactly is in the inner filling — because that’s a trade secret.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Each is obsessed with the other’s trade secrets and boxoffice success.
    — Kirk Honeycutt, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Cha advises professionals not to share all their trade secrets.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Twitter is accusing Meta of stealing trade secrets for its new Threads app.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 7 July 2023
  • Chefs and restaurants often treat their recipes as trade secrets, and while some may share, others prefer to keep them protected.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In an email, Google confirmed Thursday that its water use numbers would no longer be a trade secret.
    — Andrew Selsky, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Canter has been coming to Prime 47 for close to a decade, to share trade secrets and get the framework of deals done.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The four men are also charged with stealing trade secrets of a database the company developed.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2020
  • But Uber data is still marked as a trade secret, and public record requests must be run through Uber’s legal team.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 29 June 2019

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