Thesaurus results for COMMERCIALS

commercials

noun

plural of commercial

as in ads

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Recent Examples of commercials Pepsi a primetime player in Super Bowl commercials The new commercial is the latest in a long history securing Pepsi's place in pop culture. — Mike Snider, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026

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Noun

Co-existence with extraterrestrials has seen humans revert to old habits of prejudice and apartheid; crime and corruption are rampant as ever; pop-up ads now irksomely manifest as holograms in your personal space.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Meta has banned ads from TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance across the US and several other countries as the rivalry between the major social media operators heats up, as reported earlier by Bloomberg.

— Emma Roth, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of ads

Noun

Around $40 million in Republican spending has gone toward negative advertisements, compared to only around $20 million from Democrats.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
Around $40 million in Republican spending has gone toward negative advertisements, compared with around $20 million from Democrats.

— Joey Cappelletti, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of advertisements

Noun

Federal prosecutors and digital forensic experts have relied on a massive trove of electronic messages to build their case.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
The Unlimited Plan includes unlimited messages per month, subject to a fair use policy, as well as priority customer support and priority access to new features and future models.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of messages

Noun

Last year, Ken McCallum, MI5’s director-general, said Chinese spies poseda daily national security threat, and were creating fake job adverts to try to lure British professionals into handing over information.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Flynn had been for a drink with a girl whose job was to place adverts in the various Festival guides and brochures and who spoke mostly in panegyrics.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of adverts

Noun

But the recent ads differ from many past public service announcements because they aren't aimed at helping members of the public benefit from specific government programs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
But the recent ads differ from many past public service announcements in that they aren’t aimed at helping members of the public benefit from specific government programs.

— Gene Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of announcements

Noun

The next email had a slick poster promoting the Zoom event, with the book cover as the backdrop and blurbs from the Economist and other publications.

— Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 13 Oct. 2026
Pique, a digital newsletter of mostly photos and short blurbs that publishes monthly.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of blurbs

Noun

Bensi has become a viral sensation with online postings about her life in Cuba and the lack of freedoms on the island.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Hiring surged during the pandemic as everything went digital, with software development postings on the job search site Indeed peaking in early 2022.

— Heather Hollingsworth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

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