How to Use go public in a Sentence

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  • Suja Life, which went public in May, has lost over half its value.
    Utkarsh Shetti, USA Today, 30 July 2026
  • So what is a business already sitting on this much money going public to get?
    Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 1 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In August of that year, Roberts and John went public with their relationship.
    Meg Walters, InStyle, 26 July 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
  • The dating app business, led by Whitney Wolfe Herd, went public in 2021.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Before Amazon went public, there had been only a handful of e-commerce IPOs.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The German engine manufacturer went public at $27 a share at the start of June.
    Assiatou Hann, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • SpaceX went public with less than 5% of its shares available for trading, meaning its weight in the index will start out much smaller than its true market value.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
  • Naturally, Michaels is facing questions about going public again.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 17 July 2026
  • Birnbaum says part of its reason for going public with the KitKat theft was to draw attention to the escalating issue.
    Sam Birchall, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • SpaceX went public in June, raising roughly $75 billion in the largest IPO on record.
    Luke Fountain,justin Papp, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • Swift and Kelce’s wedding came less than a year after the pair went public with news of their engagement in August 2025.
    Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
  • Klarna, which went public last September, is trading for about half of its initial public offering price of $40.
    Hugh Son, CNBC, 6 July 2026
  • In fact, the stock has jumped over 694% since going public a little over two years ago and has gained almost 70% in 2026 alone.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • But the day that SpaceX went public, June 12, and the day after, now look like some sort of fantasy that is not going to end this nightmare.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 June 2026
  • Pintauro ultimately spoke to the outlet to get ahead of the story and has shared in earlier interviews that going public ultimately lead to more joy in his life.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • Also, most of the value creation and return from the best companies being built this generation is made for the investors who are able to invest well before the companies go public.
    Christian Faes, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • One of financial advisor Jeff Barnett’s clients called him when SpaceX went public on June 12.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 22 July 2026
  • Kelce and Swift, both 36, first went public with their relationship in October 2023.
    Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
  • Across the industry, the window between a vulnerability going public and its first exploitation has collapsed from months to days, and for the most serious flaws, to hours.
    Chris Brown, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • The median age of technology companies going public in recent years has been roughly 12 to 14 years, versus four years at the height of the dot-com boom.
    Stephen Richards Evans, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The star first went public with her allegations in December 2024, roughly four months after their film premiered in theaters.
    Adam Reiss, NBC news, 30 June 2026
  • SpaceX shares plunged 12% after the rocket company released its first quarterly report since going public in June.
    Sean Conlon,joseph Wilkins,lee Ying Shan,tobias Burns, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Thorne was founded in 1984 and went public in late 2021 at a valuation of $525 million.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Google saw a net gain of $98 billion, mainly as a result of gains on its equity investments — mostly in SpaceX, which went public in June.
    ABC News, 22 July 2026

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