special privilege
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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
No one bought Tiley’s claim that Djokovic wasn’t being granted a special privilege.
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
Being granted a communicuff is a special privilege that’s reserved for those important to the cause, a status Gale achieved by his rescue of the citizens of 12.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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