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The phrase "act secretively" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing behavior that is done in a hidden or concealed manner, often to avoid detection or scrutiny.
Example: "The spy was known to act secretively, gathering information without drawing attention to himself."
Alternatives: "behave covertly" or "operate in secrecy".
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Hoarders are often reluctant to receive visitors and act secretively, but the cats are usually easy to spot through the window.
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And it makes it all the more important that his government is clearly accountable to parliament and acts less secretively than it did when in a minority.In victory Mr Harper insisted that he will spend the next four years "governing for all Canadians".
During a similar great famine in Ukraine and in the Kuban [an area in southern Russia] in 1932-1933, the Communist leadership (which, by the way, included quite a few Ukrainians), acted as silently and secretively as before.
The engineering strain X4, which had much higher copy number and could secretively express HBscFv-IFNγ, was screened from transformed X33 by qPCR.
So sweeping, so secretively, so abusive and harassingly and overbroad that it constitutes an unconstitutional act".
Its engineering was once a bit of mystery, especially since the broken-hearted Romeo worked secretively at night without using any mortar.
"Is Julian still there?" she asked urgently, secretively.
The others have seen Johnson secretively taking notes.
The chefs who understand sorrel use it inventively, almost secretively.
"The tension started because Vito Lopez was operating secretively".
Meanwhile her older sister, Mabel, secretively plans to leave home and escape their monstrous stepfather.
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