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By then she had left the foundation but remained on a short-term consulting contract at his private office, where she was pitching ideas for Gates to back.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
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
In 2009, after she learned that Nikolic was moving to a role at Gates’s private office, she took him to lunch and delivered what amounted to a pitch for Epstein, according to Nikolic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
In response, Albon said the regulations did not apply to him because he understood giving private donations, including charging for them, was legal.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
I shut the door to the tiny back room to change in private.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Vocabulary lists containing private
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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