How to Use unpublicized in a Sentence

unpublicized

adjective
  • We were told this would be a small, unpublicized, surprise, private, photo op which gave us no cause for alarm.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2020
  • This new feature comes as a mostly-unpublicized change to the company’s iPhone app.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2018
  • The huge cut in student housing represents a largely unpublicized effort to staunch the spread of the virus.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
  • But their previous gifts have been unpublicized and often anonymous.
    — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Most are smaller social media deals, for unpublicized amounts, but such linkups could pave the way for bigger, long-term partnerships.
    — Kate Bowers, Fortune, 21 June 2019
  • Flight records reveal Russian Air Force jets making unpublicized trips to and from that city.
    — Jon Swaine, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
  • Not to mention unpublicized visits with the president himself.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 1 June 2020
  • During the session break this week, Buck has held relatively small, unpublicized meetings with constituents.
    — John Ingold, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2017
  • There were other, unpublicized run-ins that people close to Lynch characterize as profiling.
    — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 9 Dec. 2014
  • These can be very simple things, such as forwarding articles of interest or helping out in small (and unpublicized) ways when a co-worker is overloaded.
    — Moneytips.com, cleveland.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The state of Ohio is abandoning what had been an unpublicized plan to deny food assistance to people with felony state or federal drug convictions.
    — Laura Hancock, cleveland.com, 16 July 2019
  • First lady Pat Nixon attended an unpublicized screening at the White House.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • Yet public health experts said the new guidance, released as part of an unpublicized update to the CDC's website, could in fact cut down on testing.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Many interactions remained unpublicized, according to the report, where Brady was a co-author.
    — Didi Kirsten Tatlow, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Cameras on the drones also went missing during the incident, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss unpublicized details about the seizure.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Many of the most attractive assets were being auctioned off in unpublicized proceedings and often in remote areas that most investors wouldn’t travel to or couldn’t access.
    — John Kleinheinz, Fortune, 31 May 2023
  • In a series of unpublicized weekly memos tailored to each state, the White House’s coronavirus task force had been privately pressuring states to do more.
    — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2021
  • The death went mostly unpublicized until nearly six months later, when police body camera video was released following pressure from Prude’s family.
    — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The went mostly unpublicized until nearly six months later, when police body camera video was released following pressure from Prude’s family.
    — Carolyn Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The brand has garnered attention recently for revealing a previously unpublicized part of its history.
    — Jonah Flicker, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The incident went mostly unpublicized until nearly six months later, when police body camera video was released following pressure from Prude's family.
    — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • While the vandalism grabbed headlines, community and church leaders say there has been a parallel uptick in unpublicized acts of harassment and physical attacks – deepening a sense of unease.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2023
  • This required him to renege on a smaller deal that would have included his wife, and Durfee was so upset with his maneuvering that the couple drifted into an unpublicized separation.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • But his original confession along with what authorities said are White's knowledge of unpublicized details of the killing leave Williams fairly certain police had his mother's killer.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 8 May 2022
  • DeVos reportedly met with the superintendents during an unpublicized event in Grand Rapids, according to the news release.
    — Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2017
  • During his playing days, Nowitzki had an annual celebrity baseball game to benefit his foundation as well as his unpublicized yearly holiday visits to children in the hospital to bring gifts and joy.
    — Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Their conversation went fairly unpublicized.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The map of Afghanistan appears as a spider web of lines connecting bases, showing supply routes, as does northeast Syria, where the United States maintains a network of mostly unpublicized bases.
    — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The map of Afghanistan appears as a spiderweb of lines connecting bases, showing supply routes, as does northeast Syria, where the United States maintains a network of mostly unpublicized bases.
    — Author: Liz Sly, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Nevertheless, the two sides aren’t involved in public or even unpublicized talks, officials say, and senior Pentagon officials have warned about the risk of miscalculation inherent in the protracted buildup.
    — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 21 June 2019

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