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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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But this agreement did not remove the title, it restricted how it was used, with this card suggesting that it has still been used in private.

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But in private, GOP representatives and senators speak openly about Trump’s treatment of their caucus not as a check or equal partner, but as a vassal of his presidency.

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Some sources even warn in private they could lose all of the town halls they control.

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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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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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