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privately

adverb as in confidentially

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For private events, crowd sizes are limited to 25 people, indoors and outside.

He asked a private gym in New Jersey, but then the state announced travel restrictions.

The spirit of Mexico’s water laws mean proposals like Comice’s can’t promise the same kind of private financing WinWerks can.

My daughter’s small private school, which we loved, had given us the option of going virtual in light of the pandemic while still offering face-to-face learning to those who needed it.

With “The Missing American,” Quartey has launched a series with private investigator Emma Djan.

But privately, it is listening to other theories, including those about an inside job.

I learn by the third day to tell the nurse privately to make mine mostly orange juice.

Donovan had been privately concerned that running statewide would hurt his standing back home.

But privately, according to Trierweiler, Hollande slithered back and attempted to rekindle the mortally wounded relationship.

Designed for “special missions,” the privately owned company is capable of transporting precious cargo anywhere in the world.

Neither privately owned nor government stock is entitled to voting power.

Many gallants 'took' their tobacco in the lords room over the stage, and went out to (Saint) Paul's to spit there privately.

However, he had not and could not see the Bishop privately long enough to secure from him a promise.

If your intimacy will allow it, speak of the fault upon another occasion, kindly and privately, or let it pass.

He, at any rate, was not likely to have moved a finger against Bruce; on the contrary, he no doubt privately aided him.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to privately, such as: alone, secretly, between us, clandestinely, covertly, and in confidence.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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