privilege
Example Sentences
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If someone trusts you with their money, it’s a huge privilege, but whether or not your former golf buddy would have made you more than you manage your own investments is largely irrelevant.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
“I’m proud I have the privilege of being in charge, of doing that job,” he said by phone from Mexico City.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
While Pele was popularising a game he'd learned barefoot on the streets of Brazil, much of the American grassroots version was being built on privilege.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
“Working with them is a privilege and every journalist’s dream.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
“Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil, and not to a partnership of privilege and right?”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Vocabulary lists containing privilege
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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Bud, Not Buddy
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 26–31
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