How to Use public relations in a Sentence

public relations

noun
  • For now, the unions and the studios are engaged in a public relations battle.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
  • As some of the dust settled, SVB’s new regime had a public relations battle to win.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The home page can be a nice public relations page to introduce the HOA to non-members.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
  • But are public relations all that matter on the other side of the question?
    Barry Bauling, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Cooper called it a big public relations show for the party.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • He could be seen apologizing to the Browns public relations staff for the delay.
    Irie Harris, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Kay served as the team’s public relations contact on many road trips, and the trip to Texas was his first since returning from rehab.
    Schuyler Dixon, ajc, 11 Oct. 2022
  • By the end of the season, Keeley declines a trip with Roy in order to get her public relations company off the ground.
    Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Williams joined the Pistons in November 2020 and was a key member of their public relations team.
    Detroit Free Press, 27 Sep. 2022
  • As her public relations career took off, her mental health took a nose dive.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • While a gig in public relations technically brought Strange to D.C., his deeply ingrained love of musical acts who thrived in the area set his sights on the city in the first place.
    Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The Yeezy line of footwear has been a bright spot for its fashion line, so the rapper’s anti-Semitic comments have been a public relations disaster.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Robles Bahrin was born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, moving to Langkawi to open a hotel and restaurant after a 20-year-long career in public relations.
    Rana Wehbe Watson, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Doggett’s father John Smith worked at the Palladium-Item for 40 years in the composing room and public relations.
    The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Ice storms in 2011 turned into a public relations disaster for the Metroplex.
    Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Paige Bennett, 26, works in public relations and lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.
    Paige Bennett, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Those figures do not include money spent on public relations campaigns and at the state level.
    Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Tesla couldn’t be reached for comment, as Musk fired everyone in his public relations team years ago.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 18 May 2024
  • In the past two decades, private audits have become the solution to a host of public relations headaches for corporations.
    Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Working in public relations and marketing, Ciezadlo was delighted by the thoughtful present, given her deep love for both the film and the world of fashion.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
  • The film was incredibly damaging for the CIA and helped persuade the agency to become much more proactive in its public relations.
    Kathryn Olmsted, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Zelensky is often said to lead through public relations, and those efforts became a hallmark of his outreach — to his own citizens, and to the world.
    Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The first energy public relations team keeps trying to distance the new leadership of the company from the corrupt bribery scheme.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2022
  • That bit of verbal class warfare helped the strikers’ public relations cause as much as Drescher’s rhetorical swipes did.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
  • Some human rights activists are suspicious that just enough is being done for the gas projects to restart without a public relations backlash.
    Ghazi Balkiz, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Casey Brown, the public relations officer, built his own canoe with a friend during the pandemic.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Shapiro was supposed to go to at least two events in the Hamptons, including a meet and greet with wealthy donors at the home of public relations executive Mike Kempner.
    Brian Schwartz, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Meyer was fired after 11 losses in 13 games and some off-field public relations issues.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Missions that don’t take as long, or which have a longer data-gathering period, can be better for public relations.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
  • For example, our public relations firm has clients across a variety of industries, some of which have provided new places for our students to perform and new platforms to promote our mission.
    Randy Wong, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

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