BLURBS Synonyms: 114 Similar and Opposite Words

blurbs 1 of 2

noun

plural of blurb

as in messages

a short description that praises something (such as a book) so that people will want to buy it a blurb on a book jacket

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verb

present tense third-person singular of blurb

as in features

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Recent Examples of blurbs

Noun

Throughout the bar are blurbs of information on cases and criminals, researched by Rose and the team. — Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2026 What’s more, none of those spaces are traditionally edited—as both of us are aware, having both had Indie Next blurbs go to print with typos. — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026 The Downshift sums up stories in short blurbs with links to the source for the full report. — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 16 July 2026 There was a prefatory letter by Archibald MacLeish, a professor at Harvard and a former Librarian of Congress, and an introduction by Mark Schorer, a professor of English at Berkeley, along with blurbs from other eminent men of letters. — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 The book carried blurbs from prominent journalists, including Nicholas Thompson, The Atlantic’s chief executive, and a foreword by Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize–winning reporter from the Philippines. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 24 May 2026 The blurbs below come courtesy of the AFI Fest team. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025 While a lot of today’s blurbs are tongue-in-cheek, this one unequivocally isn’t. — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 The honorees each received blurbs that close friends or collaborators wrote for them. — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2025

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Sagittarius November 22 – December 21 A bigger world is calling, but the unread messages aren’t going anywhere.

— Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026
The 311 app will receive messages and respond on the next business day.

— The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of messages

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In a squad that features Kylian Mbappe, Brahim Diaz, Jude Bellingham and Vinicius Jr, Diomande can work his way into the first XI rather than arrive with the responsibility of solving a glaring problem.

— David Ornstein, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The nicest of the quartet, Springfield features a large clubhouse, a beautiful practice area with an oversized putting green and a challenging 6,906-yard course that is hilly, woody and will ask you to hit lots of precise shots.

— Langston Wertz Jr, Charlotte Observer, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of features

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Krauss reported from the Middle East for more than 20 years, with postings in Cairo, Jerusalem and Baghdad.

— Joseph Krauss, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Investigators quickly discovered that Hollander’s motives may have centered around his lawsuits, online postings and manifestos that denounced feminism and promoted the men’s rights movement.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of postings

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Well, that promise now rings hollow in the ears of every TSA worker today.

— Hydrick Thomas, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
Norway’s new King Haakon VIII will be hoping that sentiment rings true following the death of his father, King Harald who died Friday after 35 years on the throne, marking the latest blow for a family reeling from scandal.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of rings

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That battle moved from brochures to search engines, from search to social media and online travel agencies, and now to generative AI.

— Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
In application material for that developer’s project, the agency also redacted the plan for translating tenant outreach brochures from English.

— Rob Davis, ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of brochures

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Both numbers appear in an April 2026 FEDS Note from the Federal Reserve Board, which compiles three separate federal instruments and reports what each found.

— Ajay Pundhir, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
The union plans to spend several million dollars on anti-Raman ads, Noah reports, targeting her membership in the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, which recently endorsed her candidacy.

— Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of reports

Noun

She’s casually seated on a couch, soft-spoken, and sometimes pausing to search for the right words in English.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 5 Sep. 2026
These are all words written by the men caught by Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator, the mid-2000s reality TV hit that staged sting operations to nab adults who wanted to have sex with minors.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026

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