open secret
nounDefinition of open secret
: a supposedly secret but generally known matter
Examples of open secret in a Sentence
It's an open secret that he's been cheating on his wife.
Recent Examples on the Web
Evans instead walked a room full of developers through a pretty cool open secret that awaited music fans until this weekend: YACHT had been spending the last three years writing a new album called Chain Tripping (out yesterday, August 30). — Wired, "How YACHT Used Machine Learning to Create Their New Album," 5 Sep. 2019 Evans instead walked a room full of developers through a pretty cool open secret that awaited music fans until this weekend: YACHT had been spending the last three years writing a new album called Chain Tripping (out yesterday, August 30). — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, "How YACHT fed their old music to the machine and got a killer new album," 31 Aug. 2019 This is what his version of that dully familiar standby, the open secret, looked like. — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, "The Myth of the ‘Underage Woman’," 15 Aug. 2019 This became a somewhat open secret among the Quakers. — Ben Baskin, SI.com, "Breaking Bad: The False Step and Downfall of Penn Legend Jerome Allen," 11 July 2019 George Michael and Freddie Mercury were androgynous peacocks who projected transgressive allure, their queerness a wide-open secret. — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, "Troye Sivan’s Coming of Age," 17 June 2019 This is one of those things that is an open secret. — NBC News, "Meet the Press - August 11, 2019," 11 Aug. 2019 Although never formally acknowledged, Augusta’s existence seemed an open secret and strengthened the rumors surrounding the pretender in France. — National Geographic, "This 'pretender princess' tried to steal Catherine the Great's throne," 6 Aug. 2019 Irving’s decision was considered an open secret in the days leading up to June 30, and was reported as final within minutes of free agency starting. — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, "What Does This Summer Mean for the Future of Free Agency?," 11 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'open secret.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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