How to Use go public in a Sentence

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  • The crash came one day after the airline went public in a stock sale.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Suja Life, which went public in May, has lost over half its value.
    — Utkarsh Shetti, USA Today, 30 July 2026
  • Shane loves Ilya, but fears going public will ruin their careers.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
  • So what is a business already sitting on this much money going public to get?
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The nuptials took place six years after the two went public with their relationship.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Analysts point to rising bond yields as a driver of wariness among companies that could go public.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
  • SpaceX’s stock has had a bruising month since hitting an all-time high after going public in mid-June.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 23 July 2026
  • Worried that going public would shut down the show and cost everyone their jobs, O’Hare asked to stay on.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Aug. 2026
  • CoreWeave, which went public last year, warns about rising rates in its SEC filings.
    — Kif Leswing,isabel O'Brien,seema Mody, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Cerebras went public in May and has been a particularly volatile stock in its early days.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 23 July 2026
  • When the company went public in 2019, its shares surged to more than $230.
    — Lily Wright, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
  • The king found out about the family’s plans on August 16, three days before news went public.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 20 Aug. 2026
  • That these companies went public at all reflects years of the trend taking hold, well past the point of being a prediction.
    — Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
  • But the interesting thing about the whole deal is that the apology came for the fact the exchange between the teams and coaches went public.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • When SpaceX went public in June, Musk became the first trillionaire in the world.
    — Alexiah Syrai Olsen, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026
  • In August of that year, Roberts and John went public with their relationship.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 26 July 2026
  • When Snap went public in March 2017, the school’s stake was worth about $34 million.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The combined company went public in June and is now valued at roughly $2 trillion.
    — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The music producer said the couple nearly broke up before going public with their romance.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 15 July 2026
  • When Facebook, now Meta, went public, many factors combined to limit the market response on the first day.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Two years into their engagement, Dion went public with their relationship.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2026
  • And earlier this month, Altman said in an interview that the company would likely not go public this year.
    — Hayden Field, The Verge, 30 Sep. 2026
  • That playbook has helped fuel revenue growth of more than 40% every quarter since Pattern went public.
    — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • That resulted in an avalanche of social-media posts and stories as the couple’s relationship went public.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The Google parent posted negative free cash flow for the first time since going public in 2004.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In the film, Charleson and his friend Derek Jarman argue over whether to open up about his situation and go public for the cause.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The sparks were immediate, and the pair went public with their relationship in 2009.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The dating app business, led by Whitney Wolfe Herd, went public in 2021.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • SpaceX went public in June in the biggest IPO on record and is now valued at $2 trillion.
    — Ashley Capoot,kate Rooney, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Before Amazon went public, there had been only a handful of e-commerce IPOs.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026

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