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
  • In the world of public relations, salespeople are a dime a dozen.
    Nancy Marshall, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • 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
  • Prince Charles was close to him and sought his public relations advice.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • But are public relations all that matter on the other side of the question?
    Barry Bauling, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • As a celebrity spokesman, Walker was part of the public relations blitz.
    Brian Slodysko, ajc, 21 May 2022
  • And so there’s a bit of a, of a public relations battle to get people to understand.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 12 Apr. 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
  • Their lawyer is Tony Buzbee, who has been waging a public relations campaign to strengthen their case.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 14 June 2022
  • 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
  • Embiid then pushed Hayes on the shoulder and the team’s public relations chief got in between them, AP reported.
    Homero De La Fuente, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • At the time, she was brought out as a multi-talented beauty queen from British Columbia who was working in public relations and had a love for the arts and the outdoors.
    Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 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
  • Now, a new study from Monash University has given nuts another public relations boost.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Adams has taken a leaf out of the president-elect’s public relations playbook, claiming Williams’ office targeted him because of his criticisms of the Biden administration’s handling of the national migrant crisis.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 25 Nov. 2024

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