publicity stunt

noun

: something done just to get the attention of the public
Her antics on the show were just a publicity stunt.

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Steve Rubell, as a sort of publicity stunt, had started turning away celebrities in order to make the newspapers. Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025 Though its promise as a digital assistant didn’t quite pan out, the publicity stunt watched by millions made Watson an early star of artificial intelligence. Merrill Fabry, Time, 9 Oct. 2025 Hours earlier, his team was begging us & the Adams campaign to join their publicity stunt lawsuit against @ABC7. Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025 Putnam liked that idea, and a wealthy benefactor, steel heiress Amy Phipps Guest, provided financial support for the feat—really more of a publicity stunt, since Putnam's plan, as always, was to publish a scintillating memoir of the journey. ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for publicity stunt

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“Publicity stunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/publicity%20stunt. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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