publishing
noun
pub·lish·ing
ˈpə-bli-shiŋ 
: the business or profession of the commercial production and issuance of literature, information, musical scores or sometimes recordings, or art
newspaper publishing
software publishing
Examples of publishing in a Sentence
He was hoping to get a job in publishing after college.
Her sister works for a well-known publishing company.
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The Subscriptions Lifeline For some publishers, there is a viable path forward: publishing must-have content that people are willing to pay for directly.
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Calum Chace, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
His youngest daughter will inherit a portion of the estate and maintain her mother’s Hancock Park home, while Jack receives the Californian compound and a stake in the publishing rights.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 30 July 2025
This could be fixed with a manual publishing option, but even the ability to create an Under Construction page would be preferable to the current setup.
—PC Magazine, 25 July 2025
Researchers still don’t know precisely how the attack worked and what the precise relationship was between the GitHub repository changes and the publishing of the packages on npm.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2025
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Calum Chace, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
His youngest daughter will inherit a portion of the estate and maintain her mother’s Hancock Park home, while Jack receives the Californian compound and a stake in the publishing rights.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 30 July 2025
This could be fixed with a manual publishing option, but even the ability to create an Under Construction page would be preferable to the current setup.
—PC Magazine, 25 July 2025
Researchers still don’t know precisely how the attack worked and what the precise relationship was between the GitHub repository changes and the publishing of the packages on npm.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for publishing
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“Publishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/publishing. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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