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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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While promoting his new show Brothers, McConaughey managed to carve out some spon-con time for his tequila, Pantalones.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
Big firms such as Latham & Watkins, Perkins Coie and WilmerHale are promoting their white-glove services to data center clients on their websites.

— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 11 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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Under Laporta, the club might have scaled everything back, refusing to keep pace with football’s rampant wage inflation, selling young stars for a fortune and reducing their edge on the field in the process.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
The band and football booster clubs will be selling cupcakes and keychains and stickers with his name and number on them to benefit the GoFundMe page that has been set up in Kufa’s name.

— Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of selling

Verb

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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