private
Example Sentences
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The FBI director is required by law to take the bureau’s private plane instead of commercial flights for security reasons.
“What all this fret is about is whether private credit is about to have a lot higher losses,” said Evercore senior research analyst Glenn Schorr.
For most adults, reading is a private endeavor, intrinsic to selfhood.
In February, it was revealed that two employees of a Russian private security company were aboard another suspected Russian "shadow fleet" tanker seized by France in September.
From Barron's
Unlike some of its competitors, the Atlanta-based company has not only marketed its plate readers to law enforcement as a vital crime-fighting tool, but aggressively pitched its product to private citizens, experts say.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
