Collocations withsecret
These are words often used in combination withsecret.
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dark secret
There is a secret which is kept un-revealed by the people who run finance companies, and so on, a very dark secret.
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Hansard archive
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guarded secret
As the ending was a closely guarded secret, many details had to be imagined by the playwright.
From theCambridge English Corpus
secret marriage
Cynthia tells her mother, and several friends, about the secret marriage between the film star and the famous war correspondent.
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secret of success
This time, more than ever, the secret of success will be in correctly implementing the budget.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
shared secret
In contrast to symmetric cryptosystems, public key cryptography is a form of cryptography which generally allows users to communicate securely without having prior access to a shared secret key.
From theCambridge English Corpus
terrible secret
Eventually the player discovers a terrible secret: the shadowy figure responsible for all this chaos is a dark twin.
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Wikipedia
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