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PUBLICLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly
Example:
she admitted publicly to being a communist
Synonyms:
in public; publically; publicly
Classified under:
Antonym:
privately (kept private or confined to those intimately concerned)
Pertainym:
public (not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole)
Sense 2
Meaning:
By the public or the people generally
Example:
publicly financed schools
Classified under:
Antonym:
privately (by a private person or interest)
Pertainym:
public (affecting the people or community as a whole)
Context examples:
Through the Cancer Molecular Analysis Project (CMAP), NCI facilitates the identification and evaluation of molecular targets by integrating comprehensive molecular characterizations of cancer and making the data and infrastructure publicly accessible.
(Cancer Molecular Analysis Project, NCI Thesaurus)
Scientists built a computer program, DeepGestalt, and trained it on a publicly available data set of more than 17,000 photos of patients affected by more than 200 rare disorders.
(Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used to Diagnose Rare Disorders with Just A Picture, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Most of them, and especially those who deal in the astronomical part, have great faith in judicial astrology, although they are ashamed to own it publicly.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Now Mr. Davis had declared limes a contraband article, and solemnly vowed to publicly ferrule the first person who was found breaking the law.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He says, publicly, that if they want anything he'll give it 'em. He names individuals among them (myself included), whom he could undertake to settle with one hand, and the other tied behind him. He waylays the smaller boys to punch their unprotected heads, and calls challenges after me in the open streets. For these sufficient reasons I resolve to fight the butcher.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I had finished: Miss Temple regarded me a few minutes in silence; she then said—I know something of Mr. Lloyd; I shall write to him; if his reply agrees with your statement, you shall be publicly cleared from every imputation; to me, Jane, you are clear now.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
NCI Initiative to integrate the cytogenetic and physical maps of the human genome, generate a repository of BAC clones arrayed across the genetic and physical map, and to develop a publicly available database displaying this clone repository and providing a platform for correlation with other databases of chromosomal aberrations, as well as clinical and histopathological information.
(Cancer Chromosome Aberration Project, NCI Thesaurus)
On Monday, digital security researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens of Belgium's KU Leuven university publicly disclosed a security vulnerability in the WPA2 Wi-Fi (wireless local-area networking) protocol, which they called KRACK (for Key Reinstallation Attack).
(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)
At first they were of a mind to let him enter the house and to kill him as a detected burglar; but they argued that if they were mixed up in an inquiry their own identity would at once be publicly disclosed and they would be open to further attacks.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Last year, the NFL acknowledged for the first time publicly a link between head blows sustained on the football field and brain disease and agreed to a $1 billion settlement to compensate former players who suffer from head trauma-related injuries.
(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)
