special privilege
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Working out of the office isn’t framed as an exception or special privilege but a part of the job, and managers are trained to think of their teams as a unit irrespective of location.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2022
No one bought Tiley’s claim that Djokovic wasn’t being granted a special privilege.
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2022
"No other industry enjoys that amount of special privilege."
From Salon • Oct. 29, 2021
“There is no reason for objecting to it either on the basis of special privilege of sex or of the exemption of anybody from the hard requirements of our time.”
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2016
In the space of five weeks he had become an afterthought whose past performance earned no special privilege and seemed largely forgotten.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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