Down
Privately
Both words in one sentence
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John took the cigarette and Nergal privately gloated that he had started the boy down a path of corruption.
Source: The Corrupter - His coaches completely shot this down, so he practiced the technique privately with his wife.
- Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is ambivalent; the entire world is a Mega Corp.-owned Wretched Hive, the US is fractured into various independent, privately-owned states, down to the neighborhoods.
Source: Capitalism Is Bad
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