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