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{
"text": "You can't tell me to go away. This is a public place."
}
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"Something is public if it is about or for all the people."
],
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"text": "I'm going to write this in the newspaper because the public needs to know it."
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"text": "Getting Western publics to understand the nature of the war is hard enough."
},
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"text": "The dress rehearsal was opened to the general public as well as celebrities."
}
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