publish

verb pub·lish \ ˈpə-blish \

|Updated on: 19 Jun 2018

Examples: publish in a Sentence

Definition of publish

published; publishing; publishes

transitive verb

1 a : to make generally known

b : to make public announcement of

2 a : to disseminate to the public

b : to produce or release for distribution; specifically : print 2c

c : to issue the work of (an author)

intransitive verb

1 : to put out an edition

2 : to have one's work accepted for publication

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publishable

play \ˈpə-bli-shə-bəl\ adjective

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Examples of publish in a Sentence

It's a small company that only publishes about four books a year.
The university press publishes academic titles.
The newspaper is published daily.
There is a lot of pressure for professors to publish regularly.
He has not published anything for a long time.
The magazine published two of my stories.

Recent Examples of publish from the Web

In a paper just published in Science, Giuseppe Marra, of Britain’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL), proposes to shine a little light into the oceans by co-opting infrastructure built for an entirely different purpose.

— The Economist, "Submarine cables could be repurposed as earthquake detectors," 16 June 2018
One in 10 young adults ages 18 to 25 in the U.S. has experienced homelessness, according to a study published in January in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

— grace dickinson, Philly.com, "An 'invisible' three-course lunch served at Dilworth Park to raise awareness for homeless youth," 15 June 2018
For instance, a study published in the journal Pediatrics last month found that the number of adolescents contemplating or attempting suicide rose sharply between 2008 and 2015.

— sy mukherjee, Fortune, "The CDC Says U.S. Teens Are Having Less Sex, Doing Fewer Drugs—But Feeling More Depressed," 15 June 2018
Back to the Future — have led to injuries in thousands of kids since arriving on the market, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics.

— lacy schley, Discover Magazine, "It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt," 15 June 2018
Hotez said the study, published this week in the journal PLOS Medicine, should be a wake-up call for Texas and the 17 other states that allow nonmedical exemptions to change their laws.

— todd ackerman, San Antonio Express-News, "Texas No. 1 'hotspot' for vaccine exemptions," 15 June 2018
In a new paper published in Genome Medicine, researchers say a blood test may be able to identify which people are more likely to fight off the flu and which may have a harder time.

— alice park, Time, "A Better Flu Shot May Be On the Horizon. Here's Why," 14 June 2018
More than a third of American adults are using medications that have the potential to increase their risk of depression, a study published this week in JAMA finds, and nearly a quarter use medications that have suicidal symptoms as side effects.

— julia belluz, Vox, "Depression and suicide risk are side effects of more than 200 common drugs," 14 June 2018
The 80 scientists who put together the report, published in Nature, compiled their results by measuring ice loss in 24 different ways that relied on satellites, computer simulations, and measurements taken on the ground.

— adam k. raymond, Daily Intelligencer, "Antarctica Is Melting Three Times Faster Than a Decade Ago," 13 June 2018

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