privy
Example Sentences
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Only a blink of time had passed, and wandering souls weren’t privy to these visions from the Afterlife.
From Literature
I’ve been privy to someone’s absurd envy over a rival’s bigger jet and heard people running huge enterprises speak of wanting to start another one at 70.
“Now there are seven of us,” Charlie called back with the score, “and none in the privy.”
From Literature
Kemp's witness statement says that in those years, he was "privy" to detailed intelligence that spoke to Adams' historic and current activities in the IRA.
From BBC
That scenario had been briefed days earlier to the Gang of Eight—the top Republicans and Democrats in Congress privy to the most sensitive U.S. intelligence about national-security matters.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
