privacy
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That was great for privacy, but made for a tight squeeze and awkward angles when getting up to go to the bathroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
His full name has not been revealed because of German privacy rules.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The mirage of privacy and convenience could be causing more people to turn to AI for health-related information.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
It recalled that the code contains "specific protections relating to privacy, harassment" including "cases involving personal grief and shock".
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The pilot’s first request was for a little privacy.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Peculiar boundaries or openings tend to perplex us most: They conjure up privacies or intimacies with which we can no longer identify.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2019
In fact, the high court had rejected as early as 1886 “all governmental invasions of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of life.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2018
In a 2014 Supreme Court decision that made it harder for police to search cellphones without a warrant, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that the devices contained “the privacies of life.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2017
Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts stated about mobile phones: “With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans ‘the privacies of life.’
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2015
But," said she, "as we are forced to hear and say so much that is painful, let us in our privacies indulge ourselves with anticipating brighter scenes.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West
Vocabulary lists containing privacy
Power Suffix: -acy
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