privilege
Example Sentences
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For years, Newsom asserted that his “one-dimensional” public image as a slick, privileged politician on a path to power paved with Getty oil money fails to tell the whole story.
From Los Angeles Times
"Everyone starts in the same place and is equal and that is a real privilege."
From BBC
"She doesn't hide from her privilege, and I think that makes her more accessible," says Heritage.
From BBC
To investigators in the U.K., what’s glaring instead is that his ingratiating friends leaked privileged financial information to the former banker that he might have parlayed into insider-trading gains.
A tale of privilege, scandal and revenge unfolds among the schemes and dreams of a would-be British prime minister.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.