privy
Example Sentences
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I’ve been privy to someone’s absurd envy over a rival’s bigger jet and heard people running huge enterprises speak of wanting to start another one at 70.
Seemed to me if they filled in the privies, locked up the school, and threw the key down the well, they could save some real money and do us all a service.
From Literature
Kemp's witness statement says that in those years, he was "privy" to detailed intelligence that spoke to Adams' historic and current activities in the IRA.
From BBC
That scenario had been briefed days earlier to the Gang of Eight—the top Republicans and Democrats in Congress privy to the most sensitive U.S. intelligence about national-security matters.
He said that EchoStar isn’t privy to SpaceX’s valuation and invested on “faith” in the company, adding: “I’m anxious to see if they do, in fact, do an IPO.”
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
