publicly

adverb

pub·​lic·​ly ˈpə-bli-klē How to pronounce publicly (audio)
variants or less commonly publically
1
: in a manner observable by or in a place accessible to the public : openly
2
a
: by the people generally
b
: by a government

Examples of publicly in a Sentence

She very publicly acknowledged her mistake. The information is publicly available. The policies have been publicly approved.
Recent Examples on the Web Stamper said additional surveillance footage from inside the chambers that has not been shown in court or publicly released captured the sheriff using his and Mullins' phones to make multiple calls to his daughter just before the shooting, according to the Courier Journal. Landon Mion, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024 If federal courts determine that training LLMs on publicly available data is not fair use, then using intellectual property to train LLMs will require the permission of creators—and very likely, compensation. David Pakman, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024 Here’s a 10-second clip of the swimming baby hippo generated by Movie Gen: Other similar text-to-video systems include OpenAI’s Sora (which is not available publicly yet either). Todd Spangler, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024 Hobbs has not publicly taken a stance on the proposition, and declined through her aides to do so for this story. Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for publicly 

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Word History

First Known Use

1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of publicly was in 1534

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“Publicly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/publicly. Accessed 8 Oct. 2024.

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