privacy
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In response to the news, the famously outspoken actress Jameela Jamil posted an Instagram story in which she argued that the calls of Grande’s team for privacy are missing the point.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
He also asked for people to give him and his wife, author Bella Mackie, some privacy as they grieved.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
We use it to study, brainstorm and solve problems, but we also worry about its effects on creativity, privacy, education and the careers we are preparing to enter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The woman -- asking to be identified by her surname, Jeong, for privacy reasons -- said she could not afford to cool the one-room home shared with her husband and disabled daughter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
But I can’t bring myself to open the thing because it feels like a super-rude invasion of privacy.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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In fact, the high court had rejected as early as 1886 “all governmental invasions of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of life.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2018
Mass surveillance systems capture not just crimes, but the privacies of life: Where you go, whom you associate with, and the patterns of your daily interactions can be recorded and mapped.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2017
In a 2014 Supreme Court decision that made it harder for police to search cellphones without a warrant, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that the devices contained “the privacies of life.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2017
Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts stated about mobile phones: “With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans ‘the privacies of life.’
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2015
She had no fear—only the delicious awe which thrills through the spirit on its admission to the extreme privacies of nature.
From The Billow and the Rock by Wheeler, E.J.
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