private
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Cornelys relaunched the masquerade while opening it to the middling sort, alternating private parties with public nights for “any proper person” with a ticket.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Collins believes the line item encompasses private companies Nvidia has invested in, such as Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI, which was acquired by SpaceX.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
But the law also eased the path for private offerings, by allowing larger companies to keep their financials private.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
Meghan Kobza’s “The Masquerade” unmasks the festivities of 18th-century London, where the commercial “middling sort” acquired the numbers and money to emulate the private entertainments of kings and aristocrats.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
But her thoughts had become hopelessly tangled, and the only thing that she was certain of was that it would actually be easier to sort all of that out in private.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Vocabulary lists containing private
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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