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in private
Idioms and Phrases
Not in public; secretly, confidentially. For example, The hearings will be conducted in private , or May I speak to you in private? [Late 1500s] For an antonym, see in public .Example Sentences
The author is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and teaches psychiatry residents as a clinical assistant professor of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
And I think for me it's better to have the conversations in private, not in public.
Conversations about selling Rangers have been happening in private since the second half of 2023.
According to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, “humanities councils work, on average, with over 120 local partners each year and raise $2 in private investment for every $1 of federal support.”
The aftershocks would reverberate through three generations of Britain's most celebrated intellectual family, the Huxleys, leaving wounds that simmered in private letters for more than sixty years.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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