Public in a sentence as a noun

Most of these disputes don't go public, and don't last this long, but they happen all the time.

You can travel by public transport but a special card with chip and login/logout is required.

It's blindingly obvious that a single person cannot pay for those public goods.

And definitely dealt with it in a less public matter, it just screams "look at me i'ml so awesome give me some attention".

HTP told Linode to just publicly acknowledge that HTP was the group that broke into Linode, and they'd delete the sensitive info.

Most of the time the reporters overstate the research, the scientists keep the data secret, and the general public is left scratching their heads.

We're talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on many public occasions that people should be paying him to work at Amazon.

These people should be in prison for malevolently misleading the public in order to start a for-profit war which killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Public in a sentence as an adjective

And so it's just common sense that any such broad-based operations that might be perceived as impacting our constitutional rights should be the subject of broad public debate.

A few years ago I was approached by a headhunter for a publicly-traded software company about coming on as their general counsel.

I'm only saying that publicly shaming these guys was a mistake, and that an apology for the mistake could have basically fixed the problem before it got this far.

Capping at 12 would mean that both parties arguing might get the same public presentation of 00FF00 and that might quell the need for parties to prove that they're the winner of the argument by popular vote.

This posed a bit of a problem for HTP: if it became public knowledge that they had obtained access to Linode, then perhaps they wouldn't have time to go after the impersonators using their newfound access to SwiftIRC.

Facebook has value, but no matter what your privacy settings are set to, no matter what you delete, always assume that anything you write or do on Facebook - in any context - will be embarrassingly public.

However, in the 80s and 90s, various Republican and Democratic administrations collaborated with trucking companies to make war on the unions.

If it ever becomes illegal to upgrade the RAM in your laptop yourself or to install third party software on it then you can bet that you can trace the ancestry of those laws back to the shifts in public perception of computing freedom caused by companies like Apple.

Public definitions

noun

people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"

See also: populace world

noun

a body of people sharing some common interest; "the reading public"

adjective

not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole; "the public good"; "public libraries"; "public funds"; "public parks"; "a public scandal"; "public gardens"; "performers and members of royal families are public figures"

adjective

affecting the people or community as a whole; "community leaders"; "community interests"; "the public welfare"