private
Example Sentences
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While the majority of active wells in California are on private and state lands, the federal Bureau of Land Management administers more than 600 oil and gas leases within the state, according to the lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times
The families then guarded the bodies for several hours on the ground in the hospital courtyard to prevent them from being taken away until they could find private ambulances to transport them, the source said.
From BBC
Bankers say that large companies that have long stayed private are now turning toward the public markets.
Dimon spent the back half of the year both praising the administration in public while pushing back hard in private against policies that he believed were wrong-footed.
Itching to leap from employee to entrepreneur, he warned his wife that a flop might mean no more private schooling for their children.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
