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publicly

/ˈpʌb.lɪ.kli/

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What does publicly mean?

adverb

  1. In public, openly, in an open and public manner.
  2. By, for, or on behalf of the public.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈpʌb.lɪ.kli/

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Though the designs of Catiline were not yet publicly known, yet considerable preliminary troubles immediately followed upon Cicero's entrance upon the consulship.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
A copy of this miserable paper got into London, and was found one morning publicly posted on the Bishop of London’s gate.
Charles DickensA Child's History of EnglandProject Gutenberg ebook #699
More book examples (3)
A certain company, of which no prospectus has been issued, nor of which anything is publicly known, appears in the mining lists.
William, F.S.A., of Exeter CottonEverybody's Guide to Money Matters With a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing thereinProject Gutenberg ebook #1903
In the first place he kept house for himself and had publicly stated that he wanted no fools of women around his diggings.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of AvonleaProject Gutenberg ebook #47
I’ll warrant they’ll have him publicly shamed, and methinks there would be no period to the jest should he not be publicly shamed.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100