privilege

Example Sentences

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"This is an amazing building - we're so privileged to have it. It's iconic and for anything to happen to it would be terrible."

From BBC

Bicentennial, which followed “a decade of racial tensions, assassinations, scandal, rising inflation, embattled campuses and eroding public trust,” also privileged heritage over history.

From Salon

The late French queen is best known for her supposedly callous, clueless, privileged suggestion that if the peasants couldn’t get enough bread, they should eat cake instead.

From MarketWatch

When I’ve been privileged to take a class outside, seeing the light that filled students’ eyes made me feel more like a prison guard than an educator.

From The Wall Street Journal

"This is truly the honor and the privilege of a lifetime," Mamdani told reporters after taking the official oath in the first minutes of New Year's Day.

From Barron's