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noun

publication

CEFR B2

a copy of a printed work offered for distribution

In a sentence

Six example sentences with publication, each labelled with its topic.

  • The waiting room keeps one health publication on each table, and patients take copies home more often than staff expect.

    Medicine

  • Her print appeared in a monthly publication sold at station kiosks, and three galleries called within a week.

    Photography

  • The trade publication that lands on every dealer's desk each Thursday still sets prices across half the industry.

    Business

  • The poem first appeared in a tiny publication stapled together in a college basement, with a print run of ninety.

    Literature

  • The party's weekly publication reaches forty thousand members and still arrives folded in a plain brown envelope.

    Politics

  • A glowing review in the right music publication once sold more records than a month of radio play.

    Music

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