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as in to promote
to provide publicity for
the movie studios widely publicized their summer blockbusters
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as in to announce
to make known openly or publicly
the city hasn't done a good job of publicizing the new regulations for its recycling operation
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Advertisement Their testimony showed the unit had considered more cases than previously known, though officials apparently publicized only those relating to Villanueva’s sharpest critics.
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Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
Watch on Deadline That playbook came into focus as The Apprentice premiered at Cannes, and the Trump campaign widely publicized a cease-and-desist letter that threatened legal action.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
Baier’s emails were publicized as a result of Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox after the 2020 election.
—Brian Stelter, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
In August, the California legislature overwhelmingly approved an NIL transparency bill put forward by the duo, which would require schools in the state to publicize each year anonymized, aggregated data of their athletes’ NIL deals by sport and gender.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 9 Oct. 2024
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Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
Watch on Deadline That playbook came into focus as The Apprentice premiered at Cannes, and the Trump campaign widely publicized a cease-and-desist letter that threatened legal action.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
Baier’s emails were publicized as a result of Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox after the 2020 election.
—Brian Stelter, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
In August, the California legislature overwhelmingly approved an NIL transparency bill put forward by the duo, which would require schools in the state to publicize each year anonymized, aggregated data of their athletes’ NIL deals by sport and gender.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Publicize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/publicize. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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