make public

phrase

: disclose
None of those disagreements were made public.

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He was subsequently dismissed by Dior and, months later, found guilty by a French court of making public insults based on origin, religion, race, or ethnicity. — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 31 Aug. 2026 The probe, which was first made public in 2022, had since widened to include autism clinics, adult day-care centers, and other recipients of Medicaid dollars. — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 This is precisely what makes public health so challenging; that communication must be done with precision, transparency and of course, humility. — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 What’s unclear right now if that API and publicly available Steam2 server content were accessed recently or if this weekend’s leak represents content that was privately archived before the 2013 server transition and is just now being made public. — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 30 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for make public

Word History

First Known Use

1657, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of make public was in 1657

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“Make public.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20public. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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