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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • That playbook has helped fuel revenue growth of more than 40% every quarter since Pattern went public.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The Google parent posted negative free cash flow for the first time since going public in 2004.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 20 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • Moderna went public, and the ensuing outcry forced the FDA to reverse course.
    Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 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
  • Aidan’s birth comes about a year after Olivera and Heavy went public with their relationship in 2025.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026
  • But most politicians are pretty easily replaced, a truism that Moreno reinforced by going public.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 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
  • His interests include coal mining firm Petrindo Jaya Kreasi which went public in 2023.
    Yessar Rosendar, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 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

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