private sector

Example Sentences

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As the state retreated, the private sector expanded.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Absent that gain, the private sector would have shed 145,500 private-sector jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

"Over the last 24 months, health care has created 81 percent of the private sector jobs -- everything else, 19 percent," he told AFP, calling it a "risky" way to run the economy.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

“Jim O’Neill spent over a decade in the private sector helping identify and finance cutting-edge technologies of the future,” a White House spokesperson said in a statement to Salon.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

Thinking he could fare better in the private sector, he eventually quit the force to go into business with friends.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung