clandestine klænˈdɛstɪn adjective
: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
The word clandestine has appeared in 178 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 12 in “How ‘The Traitors’ Builds a Reality TV Dream Team,” by Joe Coscarelli:
An elaborate cousin of murder-mystery party games like Werewolf or Mafia, “Traitors,” currently in its fourth American season, follows a clandestine pack of killers who operate among a cast of fellow players they must target for a murder each night. Everyone else — the Faithfuls, as they’re known — is tasked with sniffing out the Traitors, inevitably turning on one another in the process.
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