public figure

Example Sentences

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“Being a public figure, I’ve always sold,” explains Wilkinson.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Would you place a bet on whether a public figure will say a specific word?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

The 29-year-old defendant, who was born four years before his mother, Mette-Marit married Norway's Crown Prince Haakon, is not a member of the royal family or a public figure.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

He teaches at Harvard and is a well-known public figure — a history communicator, scholar and storyteller and a minor TV star the world also knows as “Skip.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

Not just a respectable grocer or dry cleaner or doctor, but a larger public figure who was willing to speak and act outside the tight sphere of his family.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee