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in private



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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 .
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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.

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And I think for me it's better to have the conversations in private, not in public.

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Conversations about selling Rangers have been happening in private since the second half of 2023.

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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.”

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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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