How to Use confidential in a Sentence

confidential

adjective
  • She worked as a confidential secretary to the mayor for many years.
  • Her voice was quiet and confidential.
  • These documents are completely confidential.
  • To protect Google’s confidential data, many days of the trial will be closed to the public and media.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2023
  • If changes agreed to at last year’s COP stick, countries will be able to keep details about trades confidential.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Riley had been working as a confidential informant for the FBI at the time.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The operations team sends confidential emails to somewhere in the range of five to 10 hotels per away game to get bids for the necessary dates.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • The sources asked not to be identified as the directive was confidential.
    Reuters Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The three men met in person to discuss Golden-Gottlieb’s confidential complaint and ways to blunt it.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • One of them is that there is confidential information that just by virtue of being a part of a show that castmembers or crewmembers are privy to.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Hall’s team claims that Oates’ team let Primary Wave see the duo’s joint business agreement, which was to have remained confidential.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The city’s research on the building’s condition will remain confidential until the sale is finalized, the aide said.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • At the confidential meeting, Eason and his staff focused on a case that exemplified the perils of such risk-taking.
    Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 June 2023
  • Nicklin ruled that the claimants cannot rely on the documents handed over to the inquiry, which were ordered to be kept confidential by its head, Brian Leveson.
    Jill Lawless, Fortune Europe, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The people familiar asked not to be named discussing a confidential matter.
    Anna Edgerton, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
  • She is not allowed to leave the confidential location without a safety escort, Ramos said.
    Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • In an unusual move, the network is keeping the names of the new voice talents confidential until the show’s season premiere (yes, there are two — one actor for Rick and another for Morty).
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Civil society groups have called on the bank to do more to help the victims and have expressed alarm over an agreement between the I.F.C. and Bridge to keep some of the findings of its investigation confidential.
    Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • His legal team noted that the dispute concerns the interpretation of the 2021 agreement, the terms of which remain confidential.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In Australia, PwC acknowledged that a partner had shared confidential government tax plans with colleagues, who then used it to try to win business from clients such as Google.
    Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The department reminded the public that abuse can be reported to DCF’s confidential care line 24/7.
    Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The tech company did not want to bid for the volume of games on offer, said the person who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information.
    Thomas Seal, Fortune Europe, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Under current law, the identity of the complainant is confidential.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 4 June 2023
  • Some of the material was used to hunt down confidential human sources in Russia, according to the government.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 5 June 2023
  • In one case, an attorney is seeking the government’s confidential notes to see if those documents reveal the identities of those involved in the schemes.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Records and court proceedings in such cases are confidential.
    Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The firm’s practice in Australia — which is also slashing jobs — came under fire for leaking confidential government tax plans to clients.
    Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 22 Mar. 2024
  • After Aetna appealed the jury verdict, the parties settled the case under confidential terms in 2021.
    Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Comer says his refusal to share information with Oversight Democrats stems from his desire to keep his sources confidential.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
  • The difference in the case of the pope is partly because the conversation with Herzog was confidential, Israeli insiders said.
    Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023

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