Privileged in example sentence

An ostensibly meritocratic competitive admission system to the grandes écoles is in fact monopolized by the socially privileged, who accounted for 81% of students admitted to Sciences Po in 1998 (compared to the roughly 60% of students at Oxford and Cambridge who come from fee-paying private schools).

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Racially, the county is about 60 percent African-American, but what happens in the public schools is most of the privileged white kids go to the private Lawrence Academy.

They're all problem solvers, and they're just some of the many examples that I really am privileged to see, meet and learn from in the examples of the work that I do now.

I've been so privileged in my life to know extraordinary leaders who have chosen to live lives of immersion.

And the women, who I was so privileged to meet when there were three survivors, told these stories about lying in their cots in the refugee camps.

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