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privy

[priv-ee] / ˈprɪv i /




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The bot is privy to every bathroom trip he takes, every morsel of food he consumes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

"I have this afternoon issued a letter signed by Jeffrey Donaldson to the Privy Council office tendering his resignation from the privy council with immediate effect," the statement continued.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

As a widow, you do qualify for benefits that unmarried individuals are not privy to, such as a step-up in payment amount if your deceased spouse’s benefit was higher than yours.

From MarketWatch Jun. 2, 2026

But he quickly put it back on, declaring, 'as you are privy councillors ...

From Science Daily May 7, 2026

“They knocked over your privy three months ahead of Halloween?”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

Three indoor privies were lighted by skylights and ingeniously ventilated by a 150-foot-long lateral tunnel that drew in air and discharged it through adjoining chimneys, providing a continuous draft.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

I never followed up to learn whether it was in time to restock the park privies.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2023

While some neighborhoods were wealthy and spacious, others were poor and cramped, their narrow alleys made narrower still by wells and shared privies.

From Washington Post Jul. 23, 2020

Some of the nobles who lived in the palace or its grounds would use the hallways to relieve themselves instead of the privies because the latter were so inadequate and far from their rooms.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2020

But their well-tended vegetable gardens, small frame houses, and privies were blackened with soot from coal-burning steel plants nearby.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell

An thou wilt have it so, be it in my house, for there it will be privier both for me and for thee.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir




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