privileged
Example Sentences
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To investigators in the U.K., what’s glaring instead is that his ingratiating friends leaked privileged financial information to the former banker that he might have parlayed into insider-trading gains.
A conservative who tried twice before to win the leadership of the LDP, Takaichi’s 30-year pursuit of high office from humble beginnings contrasts with the privileged background of most successful Japanese politicians.
They said the government team had sifted through legally privileged material and accessed her laptop before proceeding to delete multiple files.
From BBC
The austere institution southwest of Tokyo was set up by the founder of consumer-electronics giant Panasonic to nurture future leaders who, like Takaichi, didn’t have the privileged background typical of Japanese politicians.
Mandelson, who was at the time the U.K. business secretary, forwarded the email to Epstein, who would have been in a position to trade on privileged information.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
