How to Use publicly in a Sentence

publicly

adverb
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  • The policies have been publicly approved.
  • She very publicly acknowledged her mistake.
  • The information is publicly available.
  • Both of them have publicly vowed to remain in the race.
    — Will McDuffie, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The names of all three men are not being publicly released because of their ages at the time of the crime.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 13 May 2023
  • The company has so far not identified the source of the leak, at least publicly.
    — Mansee Khurana, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The Holt interview would publicly set the tone for Harris’s first two years.
    — Astead W. Herndon, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Farren played it publicly for the first time that night at The Listening Room in Nashville.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The pair publicly split less than two years after tying the knot in September 2020.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • These are just a few of more than 1,000 publicly available ALEC model policies.
    — Lisa B. Nelson, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Multiple people publicly praised the group’s work before the vote.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The impulse to open their home and share their art publicly felt like a natural extension of the culture around them.
    — Max McCormack, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 June 2023
  • Iran blames Israel for the airstrike; Israel has not publicly acknowledged its role in the attack.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Jamie Foxx has just spoken publicly for the first time since a health scare led to him being hospitalized in April this year.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 22 July 2023
  • Her data set is 0.4 percent of the size of the largest publicly available English training data set.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Today, a mere 59 are known to exist publicly, with fewer than half a dozen boasting a black dial.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Mulvaney seemingly addressed Bud Light for the first time publicly in late June.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
  • At the time of publication, Snoop has not publicly shared anything about his daughter’s health scare.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In most cases, state law requires police to publicly release the video footage within 45 days.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Host Jo Koy took the job less than two weeks ago, after bigger names like eventual winner Ali Wong had publicly passed on the gig.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Jones has not spoken publicly since the unconscionable season-ending loss to the Green Bay Packers.
    — Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The identity of the victim was not made publicly available because of Marsy's law, which grants protective rights to a victim of a crime.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Lublin has publicly accused Cosby of drugging her at a hotel in Las Vegas in 1989.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 1 June 2023
  • The artists didn't address any of the retroactive crediting publicly, so who knows what really went down.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 8 Sep. 2023
  • More than half a dozen staffers from multiple council offices spoke to The Times about the efforts, though none were authorized to speak publicly.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Several women have accused Cosby of drugging and raping them over the years, and in 2014, many of them told their stories publicly for the first time.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2023
  • When a broad outline of the plan was announced publicly in October, Sanofi’s stock price dove and has yet to fully recover.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 7 Dec. 2023
  • At the end of the research period, the departments would submit a report to Congress that would be made publicly available.
    — The Editors, National Review, 13 Nov. 2023
  • But the apology has never been publicly read by a U.S. president.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
  • Even with this information, the case sat unsolved until 2018, when Davis began speaking publicly about the night of the murder.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023

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