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ballyhooing

verb

present participle of ballyhoo

as in advertising

to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively that reviewer always ballyhoos any book by one of his pet authors

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as in promoting

to provide publicity for the TV networks usually spend the summer months ballyhooing their new fall shows

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Growing by the day Besides advertising the availability of driver’s licenses, Nexus offered to sell a bevy of other forms of ID.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
Rising Advertising Costs One of the biggest drivers of increasing acquisition costs is advertising.

— John Readman, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of advertising

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Mudryk worked under De Zerbi at Shakhtar Donetsk, with the Italian promoting the winger from their reserve side after loan spells at Arsenal Kyiv and Desna Chernihiv.

— Elias Burke, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Evidence is needed to build a case for or against the role of firelight in promoting rich, spoken language in our species.

— Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of promoting

Verb

Under the new system, one voice from a non-selector will introduce each candidate by simply announcing his name and sharing his resume.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Her sister Erin created a GoFundMe page announcing that she was hospitalized with severe pneumonia and a bacterial infection in her blood.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of announcing

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Ball State is selling its Saturday afternoon and accepting a few bruises for nearly $2 million.

— Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilmember Nithya Raman took turns Thursday evening selling their environmental records — and painting starkly different pictures of the city’s performance under Bass’ leadership.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of selling

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One of the louder voices touting the four-year cycle theory is Alex Thorn, Galaxy’s head of firmwide research.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
Perkins, for his part, spent the weeks up to the recall election touting his work securing historic preservation and development grants for Englewood Square, the arts district which anchors his council territory.

— Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of touting

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