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public interest

noun

the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth:
health programs that directly affect the public interest.
appeal or relevance to the general populace:
a news story of public interest.

First recorded in 1670–80

While public interest in Ebola continues to dwindle, the epidemic itself continues to soar.

Few, if any were ever awaited with greater public interest than this one.

The assumptions of the “regulation as public interest” crowd undermine their stated conclusions.

The “Sunday Mirror” says it was in the ‘public interest’ to entrap a Conservative MP in an elaborate sex sting.

The journal and publisher believe that its continued availability may not be in the public interest.

Both in England and America the public interest in Tchaikovsky seemed to be steadily increasing.

No political question was exciting public interest, and the borough elections were decided rather by money than by measures.

The question was not at that time exciting much public interest.

It became evident that the trial would last a long time and public interest in it soon flagged.

He would have conquered a true leadership and advanced a public interest while upbuilding his party.

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