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in public

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in public
in a place or way so that other people can see or know about something. It's illegal to walk naked in public. John always tries to embarrass me whenever we're in public.
See also: public


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And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
The better he knew his brother, the more he noticed that Sergey Ivanovitch, and many other people who worked for the public welfare, were not led by an impulse of the heart to care for the public good, but reasoned from intellectual considerations that it was a right thing to take interest in public affairs, and consequently took interest in them.
My gifted relative has made her first appearance in public, and has laid the foundation of our future fortunes.
 
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