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privy to

adjective as in concerned

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We have been privy to a heavier sorrow in their story that reveals much about what women of Stewart’s era were expected to do and what her refusal to be limited to those restrictions cost her.

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He insists that because citizens pay taxes, they should be privy to the health of their leaders.

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“It is evident that her potential to expose the realities of her personal abuses, being drugged, the #SexTrafficking and #HumanTrafficking she was privy to, akin to the brave actions of Mrs. Cassie Ventura, posed a threat to those profiting from such heinous activities,” he wrote.

"There's things like internal investigations, internal statements. I've never read them. There are documents that I've never been privy to and they need to be produced now," she says.

From BBC

But she noted that prosecutors in Georgia may be privy to information from the investigation not yet publicly available and may believe they can successfully argue that, like the Crumbleys before him, Colin Gray's actions were particularly egregious.

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