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Meeting attendees, who came to hear about the budget, were not privy to the discussion but could view through an interior window what visuals were presented.
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Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 6 Dec. 2025
In this case, an aging veteran (David Strathairn) who runs a local sheet-metal factory becomes privy to the fact that his son (Will Pullen) might be having a workplace affair at that same factory.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
What’s more interesting, and more challenging for me structurally, is to give as many different angles from the parties involved as possible, so that the reader is privy to this range of experiences.
—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025
Investigators aren't privy to its whereabouts but believe it probably was broken up and melted down.
—CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
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Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 6 Dec. 2025
In this case, an aging veteran (David Strathairn) who runs a local sheet-metal factory becomes privy to the fact that his son (Will Pullen) might be having a workplace affair at that same factory.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
What’s more interesting, and more challenging for me structurally, is to give as many different angles from the parties involved as possible, so that the reader is privy to this range of experiences.
—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 25 Nov. 2025
Investigators aren't privy to its whereabouts but believe it probably was broken up and melted down.
—CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
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“Privy to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privy%20to. Accessed 16 Dec. 2025.
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