Sentence examples for a privileged means from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a privileged means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a method or way of doing something that is considered advantageous or exclusive.
Example: "Access to the latest technology provides a privileged means of enhancing productivity in the workplace."
Alternatives: "an exclusive method" or "a favored approach".

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Ockham's nominal definitions, then, should not be seen as reductionist devices for eliminating certain terms, but as a privileged means for making conspicuous what the (primary and secondary) significates of the defined terms are.

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Our waste reflects back an uncomfortable truth about ourselves: "The urban physiology of excretion," wrote the historian Alain Corbin, "constitutes one of the privileged means of access to social mentalities".

(Interviewee 05)" Faced with unspeakable trauma, fictional recreation and other forms of artistic output and realization were privileged means of resilience reported by the second generation: " I asked my father for permission to write his story [of life during the Holocaust].

That's what "privileged" meant in my suburban hometown.

It can never further harmony, however, that anyone who has done a stint of full-time childcaring, on a reasonable income, will know exactly what a privileged SAH mother means by "a difficult job" – in a home equipped with labour-saving devices – once a biddable child is over three.

He knows where to get the best crème brûlée in London; he is a member of a jazz quartet; he once said that he enjoys the National Portrait Gallery because "had a privileged upbringing which means that quite a few of the new faces in there were familiar to me from real life".

Moreover, as Letwin himself has stressed, his was by no means a privileged Etonian experience, for his parents had an old car, which was once spotted by cheering fellow pupils.

In the beginning, his appeal in the postwar world of rations, gray English skies and declining empire was easy to determine: he offered Britons a glimpse into a privileged world beyond their means, a world of first-class flights to foreign casinos and sybaritic holidays at exclusive Caribbean retreats.

So let's just settle this and move on: if cultural appropriation means that a privileged group adopts the symbols and practices of a marginalized one for profit or social capital, then yes, Coldplay's video is committing cultural appropriation.

A tax on land values would strike directly at the means through which a privileged elite secure their wealth, and a sizable minority are condemned to poverty.

Yes, the peerage is a privileged anomaly but that doesn't mean it can treat its women as minor members.

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