Verb (used with object), : They publicized the meeting as best they could.    From Dictionary.com. 

Chinese officials are going to continue their search for South China tigers despite evidence that the photo recently publicized is a fake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

It's absurd to assert that they are "publicized" there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

If there is any overt kind of publicized legal action taken, it ` s going to be a nightmare for everybody involved.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2008] Reference

Bar association limits focus to 'publicized' patients rights cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News] Reference

The government set up the system to fail so that it can take control with one swift "publicized" transaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

… which you have just further "publicized," Mr. Stewart, by your email to OFA's large membership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dinocrat] Reference

In any case, Pena's much-publicized ruling was not the final word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forget About The Experts] Reference

Then, in 1990, Peter Graf had a widely publicized affair with a model.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trouble In Another Court] Reference

Then there was his less publicized job of keeping Israel out of the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pentagon's Point Man.] Reference

But prosecutors dropped the highly publicized case for lack of evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Senator, The Sex Stories] Reference

When Francis's racial views were publicized last fall, the Times fired him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Smooth &Amp; Mr. Rough] Reference

Whenever there's a well-publicized event, it makes such an act more conceivable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patient vs. Doctor] Reference

In recent weeks, she has made well-publicized visits to poor areas of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gloria's Poverty Problem] Reference

But a witness fingered Davis, and the police launched a highly publicized manhunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Actual Innocence] Reference

But its consequences are as gruesome as those in many better-publicized conflicts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Agony Of Angola] Reference

His well-publicized crusade to reform the campaign finance laws is highly threatening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senator Hothead] Reference

Quinn portrayed Rich as the victim of a "highly publicized and aggressive investigation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pardon's Path] Reference

Brakey organized a group of victims, urged them to document their cases and publicized their plight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghosts Of Tailhook] Reference

The answer: these well-publicized outbreaks represent only a very small part of the problem nationwide.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Magic Bullet] Reference

The widely publicized sentences of mutilation and stoning rarely came to pass (although floggings were common).    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning to Live With Radical Islam] Reference

In the early '90s, the Drug Enforcement Administration made a highly publicized series of arrests at Dead shows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Requiem For The Dead] Reference

From there, he organized shipments of "subversive" literature to his homeland and publicized human-rights abuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handle This Box Of Dynamite Very Carefully] Reference

But a U.S. Supreme Court decision last spring-highly publicized only because it dealt with abortion -- changed that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take The Money And Shut Up!] Reference

But in less-publicized areas it has found quieter means of encouraging governments to turn their backs on terrorists.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEXT BATTLE: BRIDGING THE GREAT DIVIDE] Reference

"The picture company has a series of well-publicized problems, but our profitability is far above a year ago," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sony Gets A Brand New Action Hero] Reference

The president's highly publicized divorce in itself elicited nothing more than a Gallic shrug; that was a private matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Année Horrible] Reference

Bellow admitted in an interview last week that Bloom probably wouldn't have been happy having his homosexuality publicized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odd Outing] Reference

The much-publicized woes of Heathrow airport's new Terminal Four put a further spotlight on the inadequacies of this global hub.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Victim Of Success] Reference

For Katzenberg, who left Disney in 1994 in a much-publicized rift with Michael Eisner, "" Prince of Egypt '' could be sweet revenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood And Divine] Reference

Last fall agents made highly publicized raids, turning up quantities of banned substances and records on athletes who were customers.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE DOPE ON DOPING] Reference

Vietnam became the first war in which prominent Americans paid highly publicized visits to the enemy capital to oppose their own country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Shadow Of Vietnam] Reference

What's more, the celebration was organized by two foreigners, Hannah Miller and Tiffany Lemay, who initially publicized it only in English.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pride Without a Parade] Reference