privately
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Adding to the optimism Wednesday: OpenAI, a privately held AI developer, told investors Tuesday that quarterly revenue rose to $10 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Isar became in September the first privately financed European company to get a rocket into orbit.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
Her think tank's research found that 41% of homes sold through Right to Buy are now privately rented out.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
As the Wall Street Journal reported this week in a midterms postmortem, Trump has privately admitted that Miller’s zeal for deportations had “gone too far.”
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026
By this time there were captains in the Owsla who said privately to each other that the General was in the grip of an obsession.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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