privy

"Call handlers are privy to sensitive information and have access to confidential data on police systems," she added.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

“I am not privy to talk about that,” she told a reporter, explaining that negotiations were still being worked out by U.S.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

I am not now privy to the thinking of Yale administrators and trustees.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

The bot is privy to every bathroom trip he takes, every morsel of food he consumes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

By and by, a small bonneted figure crept forth from the girls’ privy.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Three indoor privies were lighted by skylights and ingeniously ventilated by a 150-foot-long lateral tunnel that drew in air and discharged it through adjoining chimneys, providing a continuous draft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

I never followed up to learn whether it was in time to restock the park privies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

In 2011, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation issued a “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge” asking the world’s brightest minds to redesign our privies to recover valuable resources from the waste.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2021

The nitre beds were large rectangles of rotted manure and straw, moistened weekly with urine, “dung water,” and liquid from privies, cesspools and drains, and turned over regularly, according to accounts at the time.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2020

They were intermittently abundant in the sprawling camp, which used few pesticides, relied on human waste as fertilizer, and supplied no water for cleaning privies or taking baths.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

An thou wilt have it so, be it in my house, for there it will be privier both for me and for thee.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton