How to Use public relations in a Sentence

public relations

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  • 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
  • He could be seen apologizing to the Browns public relations staff for the delay.
    — Irie Harris, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • As her public relations career took off, her mental health took a nose dive.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Those figures do not include money spent on public relations campaigns and at the state level.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Paxton’s legal and public relations team did not answer questions on why Paxton has not shown up.
    — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Tesla has not had a public relations staff for several years and email inquiries to its press office are no longer accepted.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This French insurgency gave Tiffany his first big public relations coup; the trans-Atlantic cable would be his second.
    — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The other is about David Benner, the long-time Pacers public relations director who died last week after a long battle with cancer.
    — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Those concerns are taking a backseat to public relations.
    — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2023
  • What Davis didn’t explore was Alphand’s influence with Malraux and her insistence that the loan would be a public relations coup for France.
    — David Nash, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The mom of two and former public relations executive took to her social media to celebrate her new job.
    — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 21 Aug. 2023
  • According to Cosmopolitan, Woolard works in sales and public relations and has worked as a model for several years.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Discovery needed to start the year, after months of mixed to terrible news at the box office, and in their public relations and entertainment news.
    — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • In Grann’s telling, the investigation by federal agents is a quest for justice that also serves as a public relations coup for an FBI still in embryo.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
  • But Tesla no doubt is facing a public relations problem.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • For Mohamed, who works in public relations, his homeland is smaller but no less important.
    — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The biggest space telescope ever has so far proved to be a scientific and public relations victory for NASA.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Johnson works at Bryson Gillette, a high-profile public relations and consulting firm that also has done campaign work.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Chron has reached out to the Gaineses' public relations representatives with questions about plans for the bookstore, but had not heard back as of publication time.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The increase will start with the fall semester, said Grant Hodges, the college's executive director of planning and public relations.
    — Al Gaspeny, arkansasonline.com, 12 Mar. 2024
  • His death was announced on Saturday by Jay Horwitz, the Mets’ vice president of alumni public relations.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023

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