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privy

[priv-ee] / ˈprɪv i /




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Another potential bombshell lies in the form of any national security information to which Jensen Huang may have been privy.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

It’s as if we’re privy not only to hard-earned wisdom but something poignant and therapeutic about loss and change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

All of this should have been thought about long before now, but I wasn’t privy to a lot of things.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

“I am not privy to talk about that,” she told a reporter, explaining that negotiations were still being worked out by U.S.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

A big old snaggletoothed tomcat lived in the cobhouse, and as quick as you’d come out of the privy, he’d jump at you.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

Three indoor privies were lighted by skylights and ingeniously ventilated by a 150-foot-long lateral tunnel that drew in air and discharged it through adjoining chimneys, providing a continuous draft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

I never followed up to learn whether it was in time to restock the park privies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

In 2011, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation issued a “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge” asking the world’s brightest minds to redesign our privies to recover valuable resources from the waste.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2021

The nitre beds were large rectangles of rotted manure and straw, moistened weekly with urine, “dung water,” and liquid from privies, cesspools and drains, and turned over regularly, according to accounts at the time.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2020

Finally, we reached the school and I was ushered into the principal’s office, a tiny cubicle facing a row of privies and a patch of yellowed grass.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

An thou wilt have it so, be it in my house, for there it will be privier both for me and for thee.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton


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