advertisements

plural of advertisement

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of advertisements The advertisements continued to feature beautiful, sexualized women — sometimes a bit of a confusing choice for a website and marketing services company — until 2013 when GoDaddy started to transition away from a strategy of scandalizing and toward a more inspirational and sophisticated approach. Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025 Centuries later, despite sanitary napkins existing before television was invented, advertisements of such items were banned from TV until 1972 in the United States. Megan Feringa, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025 While 1915 featured the first story about electric vehicles in this newspaper, national briefs and advertisements appeared years earlier. Stuart Dyos, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025 In an effort to cut down on noise pollution from suddenly blaring advertisements on, say, Netflix or Disney+, California legislators have passed a law to mandate that the noise level of commercials is at the same level as the movie or TV series being streamed. Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025 Governor and expert TikToker Gavin Newsom passed a new law that would ban advertisements on streaming platforms from being louder than the program itself. Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025 Meanwhile, the people defacing Friend’s advertisements are expressing a much larger, inchoate rage at the broader AI industry, not just these plastic pendants that practically nobody owns. Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025 The company even purchased advertisements in The Philadelphia Inquirer to highlight its achievements. Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025 Friend, a startup that spent $1 million on a sprawling campaign in the New York City subway with more than 11,000 advertisements on subway cars, 1,000 platform posters, and 130 urban panels, has been hit especially hard. Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for advertisements
Noun
  • Animated characters like Tony the Tiger, Count Chocula and Fred Flintstone blurred the line between ads and morning cartoons.
    Alice Callahan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa began airing ads last week that captured the heated exchange between Porter and CBS Sacramento reporter Julie Watts.
    David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While projects connected to Cook were frequently the subject of splashy announcements from city leaders, many have not moved forward, raising questions about how thoroughly the city vetted them.
    IndyStar, IndyStar, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Swift packed two announcements into one.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Advertisements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/advertisements. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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