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• n  an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines
  our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value
• a  confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy
  a private place
  private discussions
  private lessons
  a private club
  a private secretary
  private property
  the former President is now a private citizen
  public figures struggle to maintain a private life
• s  concerning things deeply private and personal
  private correspondence
  private family matters
• s  concerning one person exclusively
  each room has a private bath
• s  not expressed
  secret (or private) thoughts

• The other day I was honored to receive the first-ever Maxwell Smart Prize for Mediocrity in Financial Journalism, from the private-equity blog Going Private.
• On a windy day at Farnborough airport outside London, a line of private jets rolls to the runway, ready to carry Europe's lite through their rarefied world.
• A surprising new study finds that private schools don't improve students' performance over those in public school.

• buck private
• common soldier
• individual
• secret

• public

News & Articles

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• Private prison firm says it's transparent
  The private company that runs three out-of-state prisons where Vermont inmates are housed is defending its record on transparency.
  June 14, 2013 - WCAX-TV Vermont
• Private Montanez earns his right to be called U.S. Marine
  Marine Corps Private First Class Joshua M. Montanez, son of Anahi Montanez of Florham Park, earned the title of United States Marine in February after graduating from recruit training at the Marine Co
  June 14, 2013 - Madison Eagle
• Private Search Engines StartPage and Ixquick Blast Through 3 Million Daily Searches
  Traffic at the private search engines StartPage and Ixquick has dramatically increased this week as Internet users react to news of the PRISM data sharing program. Combined, the tw
  June 13, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Canada Free Press
  Obama has already made an attempt to evade personal responsibility for his own surge strategy when he said a couple of weeks ago "War is bigger than any one man or woman, whether a Private, or General or a President."
• Joe Barton in BusinessWeek
  I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House,Representative Joe Barton of Texas said today as the energy panel began a hearing on the oil spill. "It is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to...
• Tiger Wood in GolfDigest.com
  I'm human and I'm not perfect,Woods said in the half-dozen words that seemed most from the heart, and, "This is a private matter and I want to keep it that way," in the baker's dozen that captured his mindset not only in the wake of an...