Hence privy to means privately informed, while privy for a toilet comes from the idea of a private place.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2026
One student has described the moment a fellow pupil ran into their classroom and informed them that a teacher had been shot, during Friday’s deadly shooting.
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