Public
Public adjective - Used or done by a number of people as a group.
Usage example: public transportation
Single
Single adjective - Belonging only to the one person, unit, or group named.
Usage example: any view expressed on the newspaper's editorial pages is the single opinion of the writer of the column
Both words in one sentence
- Rather than have a single national public broadcaster, there are multiple regional public broadcasters, which all produce their own content and then send it to other regions.
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They wanted a single payer option, they wanted the so-called public option, they didnt like not from the right, they didnt like it because it wasnt left or liberal enough.
- On The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem defended Manson and himself from the public backlash that erupted from Columbine with the single "The Way I Am".
Source: Useful Notes / Columbine
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