silent partner

Example Sentences

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Much that is worth reading has been written about consciousness and its silent partner, the unconscious.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

Like Kempy he was an amazing silent partner in helping the clubs we worked for.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

It is the silent partner in every coal operation, and China’s operations are enormous.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026

Over the past three months she discovered that throwing events with a silent partner isn’t as difficult as she thought.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

He was brought up a printer by his father, and continued with him after he became of age, and was for some years before his father's death a silent partner with him.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.