How to Use public sector in a Sentence

public sector

noun
  • These are all public sector unions.
    — Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026
  • In the world of public sector SaaS, the stakes are high.
    — Mo Trezies, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Our public sector has not kept pace, and philanthropy cannot fill this gap alone.
    — Beth Shapiro, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The Saudi state spends much of its revenue on public sector salaries.
    — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • Some economists thought Hunt might boost public sector pay to put an end to rolling strikes.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But in Maryland’s public sector, all teachers can do is plead, rally and hope.
    — Tim Wright, Baltimore Sun, 20 Aug. 2025
  • For other public sector unions, what is emerging is an outright crisis.
    — Daniel Rivero, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
  • That would be almost enough to give the entire public sector a pay increase in line with inflation.
    — WIRED, 23 June 2023
  • In that vision of a distant, distant future, there is no public sector or state in those societies.
    — Nic Juarez, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Yet here in Maryland, public sector workers are powerless to fight back.
    — Tim Wright, Baltimore Sun, 20 Aug. 2025
  • This creates a public sector solvency crisis as well.
    — Katica Roy, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2025
  • State law also bans public sector employees from striking.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Since then, there have been cuts to the city’s public sector, along with its art and culture scene, and residents have seen a hike in local taxes.
    — Hannah Ryan, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Schools are still closed, clinics and water systems have not been rebuilt, and public sector salaries remain unpaid.
    — Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But there needs to be some infrastructure to support more commercial or public sector uses.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2023
  • And so for business leaders and for public sector leaders, needing to be prepared for this moment is very, very difficult.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • So for public sector leaders, beyond managing policies and budgets, your most important job right now is to keep hope alive in your team.
    — Kelly Stine, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Johnson won’t be able to secure reelection in two years solely with the votes of progressives and public sector union members — his base.
    — Will Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Roughly 50,000 public sector jobs have been cut, and subsidies slashed.
    — NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The huge public sector project is expected to remake the southwest corner of downtown and adjoining areas just to the south.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The government is also facing public sector strikes and strong opposition to spending cuts from within its own ranks.
    — Luiza Ilie, Reuters, 7 Sep. 2025
  • With jobs in Israel lost and public sector wages unpaid, the cumulative weight of the war is dragging down the economy, too.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
  • The new members will bring experience in business, labor and public sector service to the transit system.
    — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Experts in automation and AI are expensive to hire and less likely to be wooed by public sector salaries.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The fallout from China’s sinking birth rate is rippling from public sector concern into a private market headache.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • And while public sector unions were expanding, private sector unions were beginning to atrophy.
    — Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The service industry and public sector still provide jobs, and there has been hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of redevelopment.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 6 May 2026
  • Last month, dozens of public sector workers – teachers, nurses, bus drivers, utility workers – testified about how this bill would hurt them.
    — Jim Defede, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • If there was that much fraud in dialysis transportation, Leder-Luis said, imagine how much there is across the entire public sector.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • But Democrats passed a state law that would also repeal right-to-work for public sector workers in the event the court reverses its earlier decision.
    — Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2024

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