stealthily

adverb

Definition of stealthilynext
as in surreptitiously

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Recent Examples of stealthily The noble consort takes the empress’s place, smirking, and stealthily pushes her down the stairs when no one is watching. — Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026 The building is stealthily spacious with 40 bedrooms, and there’s a serious Sisley spa, designed with monkish minimalism, plus four superb restaurants. — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026 The six-suite Baines’ Lodge, though, has stealthily sneaked past them all as an existing camp that has received a thoughtful, artful makeover from operator Abercrombie & Kent. — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 19 June 2026 Meanwhile, their Madison Square Garden roommates — the New York Rangers — are stealthily preparing for a pivotal offseason. — Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 12 June 2026 But did Spilotro go about life as an upstanding model citizen who rubbed elbows with the Vegas elite, while quietly and stealthily protecting the Mafia's financial interests in Vegas casinos? — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 June 2026 The strategic insights that matter most—how to respond to a competitive threat, whether an acquisition makes sense, how to restructure around AI, and which leadership gaps are stealthily costing the company—are only partly products of rigorous thinking. — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 Ernest has been stealthily making deals, investing nearly $500 million into some of the world’s hottest technology companies, including SpaceX, Anthropic and Jeff Bezos’ new artificial intelligence startup, Prometheus, which is the firm’s largest investment to date. — Mirtha Donastorg, AJC.com, 17 June 2026 It’s largely escaped detection outside the 617 area code, but NESN has stealthily developed arguably the most homegrown MLB crew on TV, so much so that just about everyone who covers the Sox was brought up within a 150-mile radius of Fenway Park. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stealthily
  1. surreptitiously
  2. furtively
  3. sneakily
  4. secretively
  5. covertly
  6. clandestinely
  7. underground
Adverb
  • As a group of dancers surrounded her on the B-stage, she was surreptitiously harnessed into a rig that carried her aloft, limp yet belting, into the heavens, or at least into what looked like a UFO hovering over the arena.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 June 2026
  • Gray-hat hackers, unlike white-hats, surreptitiously sneak into corporate systems to find security vulnerabilities.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
Definition of surreptitiously
Adverb
  • At the combine, as executives and scouts furrowed their brows and furtively took notes, Mann and I stood on the concourse, watching team personnel watch prospects work out.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
  • Unlike Monday's burial for Princess Irene, which follows a Saturday prayer service in Madrid and a funeral Monday at Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, the Tatoi interment for Sofia's mother, Queen Federica of Greece, was not official, and took place almost furtively.
    — Diego Parrado, Vanity Fair, 18 Jan. 2026
Definition of furtively
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  • Swimsuits are sneakily the easiest way to experiment with something new in your wardrobe.
    — Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 23 June 2026
  • Aemond tries to sneakily kill his kingly big brother, Aegon (because now that Aegon's son is dead, Aemond is his heir).
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 20 June 2026
Definition of sneakily
Adverb
  • The state, in partnership with the federal government, built the camp quickly and secretively and opened it in July.
    — Eve Samples, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026
  • Early modern Europe was not an ideal place to enforce intellectual property rights, which in those days existed only when technologies could be secretively monopolized by a guild.
    — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
Definition of secretively
Adverb
  • Many liberals had been disciplined to adopt methods that purported to strictly confine legal interpretation, only to discover that their most prominent adherents, whether covertly or unconsciously, had other plans.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026
  • The key difference lies in the process for converting the fissile material to be bomb usable (chemical reprocessing in the case of plutonium, rather than enrichment, which can be done covertly and in small batches).
    — Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of covertly
Adverb
  • This great disparity between reality and story, truth and history, takes on new dimensions when Robin clandestinely takes refuge at an island priory where Sister Brigid (Jodie Comer) tends to his wounds.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 June 2026
  • Other examples of politically motivated pirate radio can be found around the world, some of them clandestinely backed by governmental intelligence agencies, but many of them existing as truly grassroots endeavors.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of clandestinely
Adverb
  • Teams from the United States, France, and Venezuela together freed a father and his son after four days underground.
    — Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Fleming staked much of his campaign on opposition to carbon capture and sequestration, the process for injecting carbon dioxide waste underground to reduce industrial pollution.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 June 2026
Definition of underground

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