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special privilege



NOUN
grandfather clause
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About 40% of lawmakers — nearly equally divided between Democrats and Republicans — surveyed said they didn’t intend to assert a special privilege to withhold their emails and other records, without equivocating.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024

In short, if you believe Djokovic wasn’t granted a special privilege, Tiley has some oceanfront land in the Outback he would like to sell you.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2022

"No other industry enjoys that amount of special privilege."

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2021

“There is no reason for objecting to it either on the basis of special privilege of sex or of the exemption of anybody from the hard requirements of our time.”

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2016

In the space of five weeks he had become an afterthought whose past performance earned no special privilege and seemed largely forgotten.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger