privately

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The new deal with Dhilmar—a privately held, U.K.-registered mining company—comprises a $2.3 billion upfront cash payment, and up to $1.575 billion in performance-related additional fees.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Access can be even more difficult because about one third of the continent consists of privately owned land.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

Banks are privately owned, but the devastating risks that bank runs impose on the broader economy aren’t.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman told Barron’s that in the near future his company’s hardware is already privately hosting bigger models and will do so publicly within weeks.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

But when they privately conducted blind head-to-head taste tests of their own, they found the same thing: when asked to choose between Coke and Pepsi, the majority of tasters—57 percent—preferred Pepsi.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell