private life
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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People who know Powell well say that, after nearly 14 years at the Fed and eight years as chair, he is more than ready to return to private life.
There is the occasional picture in a newspaper showing Kane and his family doing mundane activities, but they don't feel much, if any, intrusion into their private life.
From BBC
Privacy lawyer Jamie Hurworth says while filming someone in public is not against the law, "the law protects an individual's right to a private life, and it can protect individuals in public places as well as private places".
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Towards the end of two hours of questions, he railed against the "disgusting" sense that he wasn't entitled to a private life, and talked of the emotional toll of alleged press intrusion on him and his family.
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His manner showed how personal this was to him, delivering terse and sometimes tense answers, about a series of stories that he said had "commercialised" his private life and those close to him.
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