privy
Example Sentences
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After being told that some of the judges were also privy councillors, he briefly removed his hat in acknowledgment.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
However, access to accounts alone is not exactly proof of wrongdoing unless you are privy to additional facts or evidence of misuse.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 25, 2026
They won't want him to be privy to all their development secrets to take with him, so will they shut him out of engineers' meetings, like for departing drivers?
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Old Emma liked to keep her independence, so Lulu fixed up ropes leading from the house out to the shed, where she kept her loom, and another one from the shed out to the privy.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
Vocabulary lists containing privy
The Great Gatsby
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"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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