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pub·lished

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. publishedadjective

    prepared and printed for distribution and sale

    "the complete published works Dickens"

  2. promulgated, publishedadjective

    formally made public

    "published accounts"

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  1. published

    Published refers to the act of making content, such as a book, article, report, music, film, or other works, available to the public, typically in a printed or digital format. This is often done through a publishing company, a media outlet, or via online platforms. Once a work is published, it is generally accessible for viewing, reading, or purchasing by the general public.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Published

    of Publish

Editors Contribution

  1. publishedverb

    Verb form of the word publish.

    They published the document and the research has shown accurately a unity government system is the choice of the people.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 11, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'published' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #978

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'published' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2740

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of published in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of published in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of published in a Sentence

  1. Judith Flanders:

    The names of the pubs stank. The names of the pubs were dreadful, (They) sounded like cheap 1990s wine bars. We really worked on the names of the pubs (from a published list of names from the 1850s).

  2. Regina Goodwin:

    Everybody's talking about tourism and saying,' Let's remember what was,' but that's not economic development, you've got folks collecting millions of dollars. You've got movies being made. You've got books being published. You've got facilities being built. But you've also got survivors. They're not getting any millions.

  3. Tatiana Botkina:

    This fact has never been published anywhere, and apart from my father I alone knew anything about it.

  4. Sunil Arora:

    Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube have committed in writing to ensure that any political advertisement published on their platforms will be certified.

  5. Adam Snow:

    We are disappointed that state agencies published bad data that supports the reopening of the gas field, which only serves to benefit SoCal Gas at public expense.

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