Thesaurus results for BALLYHOOING

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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Passengers traveling from Manhattan can also connect to the BLADEone aircraft at Westchester County Airport by helicopter, with BLADE advertising the helicopter transfer at approximately 12 minutes.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
So … universities are investing in their sports programs and advertising them hard.

— Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of advertising

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Duff returned to touring this year after nearly two decades off the road to launch her Lucky Me Tour, promoting her February album release Luck… Or Something.

— Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026
National Organization for Women president Kim Villanueva described the content as often promoting women as objects and encouraging or glorifying rape culture.

— Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of promoting

Verb

The Kennedy Center is already running late, compared to past years, in announcing the honorees.

— Paul Grein, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2026
This week, City Hall and the DCLA are announcing an increase in funding for direct-support grants to artists, administered by each borough’s local arts council.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of announcing

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Francesca Breccia’s Coccinelle Film Sales is handling the film and will start selling it to international buyers during Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
Although the tapes won’t be part of the planned auction, Littleton is going forward with selling previously unpublished photos of the band, studio material, set lists, a tour parka, instruments the band owned, and other items.

— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of selling

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Trump is touting his administration’s economic and trade agenda in back-to-back trips to Texas and Oklahoma.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
At the same time, many are touting stablecoins as a natural option for powering those payments.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of touting

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