private sector
Example Sentences
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The private sector exists somewhere out there—the source of all that money—but its customs are foreign to the weirdo revolutionaries who populate the world Ms. Barker once made her career in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Inflation watchers in the private sector said the BEA move was justified, but they faulted the agency for not giving the public a heads up, even for such a nerdy statistical thing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
The private sector has repeatedly called for accelerating the implementation of AfCFTA, the continent-wide free trade area that could open up a market of nearly 1.5 billion consumers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
There is a halfway house, in which Thames would be placed into a so called "special administration regime", or SAR, which is usually a temporary situation until another private sector buyer can be found.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen 449 points, to its lowest level in four years, and most of the market-moving news was coming not from the private sector but from government officials.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
