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"sub rosa" is a commonly used Latin phrase that is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to indicate confidentiality or secrecy; it is often translated to mean "under the rose". An example sentence using "sub rosa" would be: "Our meeting tomorrow needs to remain sub rosa; please do not share the details with anyone."
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sub rosa
noun
Used in workers' compensation cases to mean covert surveillance video used to catch workers' compensation applicants and show that they are in fact not injured.
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However, it's not all sub rosa.
"It's been kind of sub rosa".
The sexuality here is all sub rosa.
All this is happening almost sub rosa.
These machinations remained thoroughly sub rosa.
They go to dinner to promote their sub rosa agendas.
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"As we celebrate with our families, I will be thinking of you," reads one sub-rosa holiday message.
Once they were literally cassette tapes; these days mix tapes are mostly sub-rosa CDs sold on the street and the Internet for "promotional use only".
The show keeps inserting new perspectives, drawing fascinating parallels to all the sub-rosa genres that critics condescend to: soaps, tabloids, punk, horror.
Bilingualism, if it ever was, no longer seems to be a sub-rosa attempt by Hispanics to take over the United States.
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