Example Sentences

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Privatized airports, which could charge airlines a premium for more-reliable service, would.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

Privatized prison services like phone calls, which are cheap to install and network, attracted little in the way of regulation or active oversight in the years following the AT&T breakup and the ’96 telecoms act.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2023

Singer, the author of “Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry,” says, “We are a public-private hybrid military now — there’s no going back.”

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2020

Privatized archaeology made me picture skeletons moldering in storage sheds, ancient pottery displayed on coffee tables, and well-intentioned but clueless amateurs damaging irreplaceable sites as a recreational activity.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2015

Privatized companies still face major problems in restructuring; the number of annual bankruptcies quadrupled in 1994.

From The 1995 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency