private
Example Sentences
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Fusion research merits sustained government and private investment, because practical fusion energy would transform the world and because the research produces technologies of immediate value.
While the domain purchase appears to be a private action rather than an official campaign, the association underscores how the Kennedy Center dispute has become fodder for satire almost by default.
From Salon
A Virginia company wants to construct an off-grid gas plant between the towns of Thomas and Davis to power its own private data complex.
From Salon
He is the Gulfport general manager for Ports America, a private company that handles cargo at the port and that ordered the smallest of the cranes, measuring 300 feet tall and weighing 1,500 tons.
Several times I led mule strings to Soda Flat, a private outpost in Sequoia National Forest.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.