public knowledge

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Cases often only become public knowledge when a player has been absent from their team's playing squad for a period of time without proper explanation.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

And later: Reuters published a very long story “revealing” Banksy’s real name—which, Felix will tell you, has been public knowledge since 2008.

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026

More than 11,033 people have also been given antibiotics since the outbreak became public knowledge on Sunday.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

However, the exact timing of activities associated with the new liquidity pool, including any withdrawals from the Curve3pool, wasn’t public knowledge, according to the lawsuit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

What made the Scientific Revolution, Latour argues, is not the experimental method, or commercial society—both had been around for centuries—but the printing press, which turned private information into public knowledge, private experience into communal experience.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton