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public eye en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, with-definite-article) The focus of public attention; the limelight.
    • The president and her advisers seem convinced that by keeping the issue of the Falklands in the public eye she can embarrass London into eventual negotiations. 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, “Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'”, in The Guardian, UK:
    • The chief function of an English journal is that of all other journals the world over: it must keep the public eye fixed admiringly upon certain things, and keep it diligently diverted from certain others. 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter X, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 97:
    • The lens of the public eye is focused on the sensational trial.
    • She finally began holding press conferences to keep her daughter’s face in the public eye. 2026 July 29, Nicholas Muhoro, “Amy Billig Vanished While Hitchhiking Through Coconut Grove. Then the Calls Began”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2026:

Relateds

limelight

Translations (8)

fi julkisuuden valokeila (focus of public attention) · ur منظرِ عام (focus of public attention) · hu nyilvánosság (focus of public attention) · hu az érdeklődés homloktere (focus of public attention) · hu közszereplés (focus of public attention) · hu közfigyelem (focus of public attention) · de Öffentlichkeit (focus of public attention) · hu közvélemény (focus of public attention)