in the public eye
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: in a position that receives a lot of public notice and attention
The job requires someone who is comfortable being in the public eye.
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Success in the public eye requires the ability to say what everyone might be thinking, or to twist what’s obvious into drawing an unexpected conclusion.
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Eric Fuller, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
While her relationship with Bezos has certainly upped her profile, Sánchez has been in the public eye for decades.
—Billie Schwab Dunn, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
Washington herself had a great fondness for the gem, a sentiment echoed by later first ladies like Jacqueline Kennedy, Barbara Bush and Michelle Obama, who all wore pearls during their tenure in the public eye.
—Ty Gaskins, WWD, 20 Jan. 2025
Read: David Lynch's unfathomable masterpiece Lynch took many, many creative risks over the years, but Blue Velvet is the movie that perhaps best melded grim violence and white-picket-fence cheerfulness—a vision that came to characterize him in the public eye.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Eric Fuller, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
While her relationship with Bezos has certainly upped her profile, Sánchez has been in the public eye for decades.
—Billie Schwab Dunn, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
Washington herself had a great fondness for the gem, a sentiment echoed by later first ladies like Jacqueline Kennedy, Barbara Bush and Michelle Obama, who all wore pearls during their tenure in the public eye.
—Ty Gaskins, WWD, 20 Jan. 2025
Read: David Lynch's unfathomable masterpiece Lynch took many, many creative risks over the years, but Blue Velvet is the movie that perhaps best melded grim violence and white-picket-fence cheerfulness—a vision that came to characterize him in the public eye.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
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“In the public eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20public%20eye. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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