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Nearly 200 private colleges borrowed from restricted endowments in 2025, up from 131 in 2021, according to estimates from Perspective Data Science, a higher-education financial consultant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Fifa President Gianni Infantino is a "dead duck" following the row over attempts to sell stakes in competitions to private investments, an anonymous insider tells the Daily Star.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Concerns about private credit and the threat AI poses to data-intensive financial businesses have also faded somewhat, he added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
And on Wednesday, Havana said it would open up major sectors such as gas stations, electricity generation, trash collection and pharmacies to private firms.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Or, if they were Pelicarnassus, they rode in limousines with a private driver employed by their mother.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
Taking a step back and looking at initial public offerings and public equity markets versus privates, I think it’s fair to say that somewhere along the line, we’ve lost our way.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
What, Henry asks, “have kings, that privates have not too, save ceremony, save general ceremony?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
They’re going to put aspartame in this possibly-causing-cancer category, along with, oh, putting talcum powder on your privates, or working in a dry cleaner.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2023
The army statement included photos of the four: a corporal, a lance-corporal and two privates.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2023
There was continual outcry against the troops by some — soldiers scuffling with boys, their heel-marks in the slush; girls surrounded by lanky privates.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing private
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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