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  • verb military To withdraw troops surreptitiously from a dangerous position
  • noun that which is exfiltrated, the removed substance or item

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Examples

  • The country's agents were attempting to "exfiltrate" data from the classified Central

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2010

  • "exfiltrate" Tehran on a flight to Zurich on Jan. 27, 1980.

    GlobalResearch.ca 2010

  • "exfiltrate" Tehran on a flight to Zurich on Jan. 27, 1980.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • Basically, the task force fears that Canada is letting in too many immigrants from "Pakistan, Afghanistan and Egypt" who might exfiltrate to the United States.

    Blame Canada | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Goldsmith called the government “unconscionably lax in allowing Bradley Manning,” an Army private arrested on suspicion of giving WikiLeaks Afghan and Iraq war documents last summer, “to have access to all these secrets and to exfiltrate them so easily.”

    WikiLeaks’s Assange gains influential defenders Jeff Stein 2010

  • "If they've implemented the microphone function, they can listen to whatever they want and exfiltrate the audio data."

    What Your iPhone Apps Know About You 2010

  • One of the young Marines told me that they had units of Navy strike teams stationed onboard supply vessels and they used these teams to infiltrate and exfiltrate, via zodiac boats, the government coastal supply centers to identify good targets so that the larger cargo choppers can get in and airlift the food.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • The goal, the cable said, is to "exfiltrate massive amounts of sensitive data from the networks."

    Chinese leaders ordered Google hack, U.S. cable quotes source as saying Ellen Nakashima 2010

  • We sent four men to distract the undead audience so that the rest of us could open the gates and exfiltrate the factory.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • I reached down for my carbine so that I could take out the rest of the crew and safely exfiltrate this tomb.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

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