public image

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Bill Gates’s public image has been shattered by Justice Department files detailing his association with Jeffrey Epstein.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

But his public image -- built in part on an official decrease in the number of murders -- has won many over.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

During the show's five years on-screen, Miley Cyrus' public image became more provocative, causing concerns at the time due to the contrast with Hannah's squeaky clean vibe.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

For years, Newsom asserted that his “one-dimensional” public image as a slick, privileged politician on a path to power paved with Getty oil money fails to tell the whole story.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

Either way, by 1951, when Henrietta Lacks’s cells began growing in the Gey lab—just five years after the widely publicized “death” of Carrel’s chicken heart—the public image of immortal cells was tarnished.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot