How to Use privilege in a Sentence
- Good health care should be a right and not a privilege.
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And for the privilege of opening their arms to the world.
—John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 17 July 2022
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And it's been a privilege to work with you on the hits and the misses.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2022
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In 2024, in the face of a genocide, that’s a privilege.
—E.r. Pulgar, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
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Evans was to pay Marsh for the privilege of sharing the post.
—TIME, 6 Feb. 2024
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So that is a privilege of ours to be able not to do that.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2021
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And that, in and of itself, would be enough to be a privilege.
—Veronica Wells, Essence, 18 Apr. 2022
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That’s the guy Brissett had the privilege to watch work day in and day out.
—Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2017
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Does the Wives’ privilege protect them enough to run around with the guards?
—Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
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And to be quite a big part of it is an honor and a privilege.
—Doug Ferguson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
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What a privilege to be a part of this program for the last 25 years.
—ABC News, 14 Nov. 2021
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So far, the arbiters of the term have been white men of privilege, but so what?
—refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
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But there is no such privilege for the Cougars, not this week.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2020
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Not many artists have the privilege of being able to say they’ve been part of this.
—Hanaa’ Tameez, star-telegram, 23 May 2018
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Michael, thank you for the privilege of being with you.
—CBS News, 4 Nov. 2020
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Still, the right to vote remained a white, male privilege for decades.
—Brittny Mejiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
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Neither one did and were paid by the Dodgers for that privilege.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
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Fans are dying to know who had the honor, the privilege.
—Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 11 June 2018
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Now, that privilege can change in the moment of a traffic stop….
—Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
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He was born into wealth and privilege but heard a calling to serve the poor.
—Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 5 Oct. 2020
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Chris will be deeply missed by all who had the privilege of knowing him.
—Hartford Courant, courant.com, 29 May 2018
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To me, the least that people with privilege can be doing...
—Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2020
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She will be deeply missed by all who had the privilege of meeting her.
—courant.com, 3 Dec. 2019
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To bring a brand-new play and to originate a brand-new play is such a privilege.
—Michael Gioia, PEOPLE.com, 14 Mar. 2022
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This is a privilege that so few authors get, to see their worlds brought to life right in front of their eyes.
—Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 17 Dec. 2020
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But to be part of something like this is such an honor and a privilege.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
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Many commenters to the post were quick to applaud the mom for teaching her tots that privileges are earned.
—Melissa Willets, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
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There’s a tidy conceit here with which Haguel sets to out Ben’s own privilege.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 1 June 2023
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Those who complied were granted privileges such as access to more and better food, and even possession of slaves.
—Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
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Because this is a perfect example of just how loosely the privilege is being used.
—Chris Welch, The Verge, 2 Apr. 2024
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And in a few days, Avila won’t be privileged with the same view.
—Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2018
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This has privileged longer shows—the more looks, the more potential page views.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2019
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We are honored and privileged to be able to cover all the action on the ice for you guys from Pyeongchang 2018.
—Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 9 Feb. 2018
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We are privileged as a congregation to open our doors to the stranger.
—Washington Post, 28 June 2018
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That system has evolved to privilege a certain kind of movie.
—Adam Rogers, WIRED, 6 July 2017
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The reverse is true of those who see actors as privileged: 25% would be willing to pay more but 62% would not.
—Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
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This is a hotel that privileges the senses—taste itself, in all meanings of the word.
—Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2023
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The company had said the documents produced by that probe, sought by the SFO, were privileged.
—Samuel Rubenfeld, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
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The championing of free speech must not privilege any immutable notion of the truth to the exclusion of others.
—chicagotribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
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Issues not typically felt by those privileged enough to be in the room!
—Alida Draudt, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
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We have been honored and privileged to be part of the Medina community for the last 31 years.
—Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 8 Mar. 2018
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In a way, these anxieties are for the privileged: Only 29% of the American workforce can do their jobs from home.
—Sophie Alexander, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
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More broadly, there is a tendency in our culture to privilege the future over the past.
—Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2021
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All of those factors played a role here and will privilege a moribund industry at the expense of one that is growing.
—David Segal, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
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Those who breathed it were privileged, but any dreamland could become a nightmare.
—Tara Knight, The Root, 13 May 2018
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His wealth, his fortune, and his fame should not privilege him nor protect him from being met with the sternest punishment that there is.
—Stacey Leasca, Glamour, 28 Apr. 2018
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On the other hand, UX design also privileges out-of-the-box genius to solve design problems.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
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Johnson, now a ticket taker, feels privileged to have worked so long in Detroit.
—Curtis Rush, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
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There, a focus on wellness is central, and travelers have privileged access to the Tigers Nest Monastery.
—Christina Pérez, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2017
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In effect, then, the plan is to privilege one energy source over another.
—Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2011
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So, my fellow folks privileged enough to be able to work from home during this crisis, below are some picks in a bunch of that might make working from home more bearable.
—Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020
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The museums privileged historic art, and LA had few galleries.
—Catherine G. Wagley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
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And their rules often privilege those already in power.
—T.c. Sottek, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2021
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Even if the communication between Trump and Comey had been privileged, Trump may have thrown away that privilege in a tweet storm.
—Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 12 June 2017
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Comey makes the same error as Sanders by privileging Trump’s narrative.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2019
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The Senate’s rules privilege the majority, which controls the agenda and floor time.
—Ben Sasse, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
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The works explore a beloved theme of the revolutionary filmmaker: the malevolent pretensions of the rich, who seek to hold on to privilege as the world around them explodes.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
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Franklin Roosevelt, scion of New York’s upper crust, opposed the colonialism that Churchill felt privileged to defend.
—Jonathan W. Jordan, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
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Much like the multiplicity of Black and Indigenous characters in a genre that rarely privileges their point of view, the contradictions of Bass’ new career form the backdrop to his main adventures.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
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Beginning in the 1960s, the United States moved toward a strategy that privileges the limitation of damage against its homeland in a nuclear war.
—Ankit Panda, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
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