privileged
Example Sentences
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This raised the possibility that she might eventually win enough support to change the constitution, and end the military's privileged position.
From BBC
"This is an amazing building - we're so privileged to have it. It's iconic and for anything to happen to it would be terrible."
From BBC
Bicentennial, which followed “a decade of racial tensions, assassinations, scandal, rising inflation, embattled campuses and eroding public trust,” also privileged heritage over history.
From Salon
The late French queen is best known for her supposedly callous, clueless, privileged suggestion that if the peasants couldn’t get enough bread, they should eat cake instead.
From MarketWatch
When I’ve been privileged to take a class outside, seeing the light that filled students’ eyes made me feel more like a prison guard than an educator.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.