How to Use public affairs in a Sentence

public affairs

plural noun
  • Lehane was soon named Airbnb’s head of global policy and public affairs.
    — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Blair will serve as deputy chief of staff for legislative, political and public affairs.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Vance joined the Marines Corp after high school and served as a public affairs marine in Iraq.
    — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Vance joined the Marines Corp after high school and served as a public affairs marine in Iraq.
    — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Vance joined the Marines Corps after high school and served as a public affairs marine in Iraq.
    — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024
  • Parker is a licensed attorney and works in public affairs in addition to her mayoral work.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Bereft with grief, the 50-year-old public affairs professional decided to go through his son’s phone.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • Carr was a career employee of the department's office of public affairs.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Many of them have lately become more outspoken on public affairs as the space for independent voices at home wanes.
    — Wenxin Fan, NPR, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The broadcasters got the message from the feds and responded with a spike in prime-time documentaries and public affairs shows.
    — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Christopher Wells is the coalition’s senior vice president of public affairs.
    — Edward Abrahams and Christopher J. Wells, STAT, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Any such claims are false, said Jaclyn Rothenberg, the agency’s director of public affairs.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Newsweek has emailed the NAS Sigonella public affairs office for more details.
    — Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Instead, some former lawmakers have used them to further their careers in lobbying and public affairs.
    — Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Young also owned a public affairs consulting firm called Civic Link Strategies.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • Before joining Newsom's team, Williamson ran her own public affairs and lobbying firm.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Andrea Tsuchiya, a state national guard public affairs officer, said in a statement.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026
  • There are few ways of determining the quality of public affairs programming.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
  • Aaron Bone, chief of legislation and public affairs at the medical board, pushed back against the notion that the board does not need its own program.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2025
  • Although she's been absent from public affairs, Bündchen has been keeping fans up to date on Instagram.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
  • By the end of the decade, scholars and writers debated public affairs on Weibo, a Twitter-like platform.
    — Han Zhang, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • His name graces a public affairs school at UW-Madison, which is expanding with a new major and building on campus.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Ivy-Dede worked in health care administration as well as law and public affairs, according to her LinkedIn page.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Elam invited Westheimer to be a guest on the station’s Sunday morning public affairs show.
    — Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
  • After nearly three decades in the spotlight, Jessica Simpson knows how to handle her public affairs.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Almost every country in the world has a public broadcaster which produces public affairs programming for radio.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
  • The Public and Listeners The key to public affairs broadcasting is the word public.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026
  • Xavier Mirailles, the company’s director of public affairs in France, says those changes brought order to Paris.
    — WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Matthew Hicks, vice president of public affairs, said the project builds on three decades of success at Honda Center and takes it a step further.
    — Caroline Wong, Oc Register, 10 May 2025
  • Elk Grove public affairs manager Kristyn Laurence said in an email that the city’s ruling is largely a policy call.
    — Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 19 Apr. 2024

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