public figure
Example Sentences
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Mention-market bets hinge on a single question: Will a public figure say a certain word?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
“Being a public figure, I’ve always sold,” explains Wilkinson.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
Would you place a bet on whether a public figure will say a specific word?
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
He teaches at Harvard and is a well-known public figure — a history communicator, scholar and storyteller and a minor TV star the world also knows as “Skip.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
The “peculiar accomplishment” of Alfred Loomis, it would later be written, was “being a public figure without letting the public in on it.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
