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An example use of undercover in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… Veritas sent out undercover reporters to …”
Undercover means to hide or conceal something, especially something illegal, by concealing it under a disguise.
the word undercover occurs in english on average 4.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that undercover can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) communication, information, and media;