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public life

noun

  1. public service as an elected or appointed government official.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of public life1

First recorded in 1775–85
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There was a very different feel to the event compared to last year, when there was feverish interest in the return to public life for Princess Catherine after her cancer treatment.

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Yet this victory comes with an asterisk: In a concurrence, Justice Clarence Thomas—joined, alarmingly, by Justice Brett Kavanaugh—launched an assault on civil rights law that would devastate disabled Americans’ ability to receive an education and participate in all aspects of public life.

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It might be best to keep your public life free of racial slurs.

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"Politics can be a highly pressured and difficult game and Zia has clearly had enough. He is a loss to us and public life," he wrote on social media.

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“They want us to go away, to go back in the closet, not to be part of public life,” Wiener said.

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