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For more than a decade, Walker had worked at the Gates Foundation and then the billionaire’s private office.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
That year, Walker left the foundation and joined Gates’s private office.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
In messages on Aug. 10, the two settled on a reference to private “hangar meetings” that Walker would slip into her message to Gates, specifically because, as Epstein put it, “he won’t forward that.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
During the first months of Guardiola in charge in 2008, the right side of the pitch was the Argentine's corridor, his private road to goal.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
I gesture for Theo to wait in the guest parlor to the right, while I continue to my mother’s private study, the place where she would plan the week’s menus and write her correspondence.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing private
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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