privy
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All of this should have been thought about long before now, but I wasn’t privy to a lot of things.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
I am not now privy to the thinking of Yale administrators and trustees.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
The Senate passed a resolution in April banning lawmakers in the upper chamber, and their staff who are often privy to sensitive information, from betting on Kalshi and Polymarket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
"I have this afternoon issued a letter signed by Jeffrey Donaldson to the Privy Council office tendering his resignation from the privy council with immediate effect," the statement continued.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
He stood up and, with dignity, left the privy.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Three indoor privies were lighted by skylights and ingeniously ventilated by a 150-foot-long lateral tunnel that drew in air and discharged it through adjoining chimneys, providing a continuous draft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
I never followed up to learn whether it was in time to restock the park privies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
In 2011, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation issued a “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge” asking the world’s brightest minds to redesign our privies to recover valuable resources from the waste.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2021
The nitre beds were large rectangles of rotted manure and straw, moistened weekly with urine, “dung water,” and liquid from privies, cesspools and drains, and turned over regularly, according to accounts at the time.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2020
He was given a wheelbarrow and told to collect human waste from the privies.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
An thou wilt have it so, be it in my house, for there it will be privier both for me and for thee.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Vocabulary lists containing privy
The Great Gatsby
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"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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