privy to

idiom

: allowed to know about (something secret)
I wasn't privy to their plans.

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Loading your audio article SAN JOSE – Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson wasn’t privy to all the details about why David Quinn was fired as the San Jose Sharks head coach last April. Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025 If your favorite chef isn’t already privy to the cookware essential from Our Place, this V-Day is the perfect time to upgrade her stovetop. Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 24 Jan. 2025 At the time, the protestors outside Capitol Hill who opposed the ban were not made privy to its findings. Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025 Three officials working on migration and were privy to those figures said the numbers rarely correlated with the data presented by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the government of Panama, which many migrants pass through to reach Mexico. Maria Abi-Habib, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for privy to 

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“Privy to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privy%20to. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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