Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commercials
Noun
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Animated characters like Tony the Tiger, Count Chocula and Fred Flintstone blurred the line between ads and morning cartoons.—
Alice Callahan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025 -
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa began airing ads last week that captured the heated exchange between Porter and CBS Sacramento reporter Julie Watts.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Vought and his colleagues toured the country, whipping up the grass roots, and poured millions of dollars into advertisements and lobbying.—
Andy Kroll,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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Users said on social media that although videos were not playing or showing as nonexistent, video clips of advertisements were still active on the platform.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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However, that has all changed over the past few days as reports from outlets including , and uncovered past messages from Platner written on the message board site Reddit – some of which have been deleted as Platner seeks to distance himself from them.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
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Well, there were a lot of hateful messages yesterday.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Oct. 2025
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The compounds used fake job adverts to lure workers who were then forced to commit online fraud under threat of torture and violence, according to prosecutors.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
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The analysis recorded all gambling messaging, such as logos on replica and training kits, stadiums, advertising boards and interview backdrops, with the Saturday evening game between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester City found to have an average of 22 adverts per minute.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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While projects connected to Cook were frequently the subject of splashy announcements from city leaders, many have not moved forward, raising questions about how thoroughly the city vetted them.—
IndyStar,
IndyStar,
13 Oct. 2025
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Swift packed two announcements into one.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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While a lot of today’s blurbs are tongue-in-cheek, this one unequivocally isn’t.—
Sean Gentille,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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The honorees each received blurbs that close friends or collaborators wrote for them.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Jones has apologized for the texts, which were first reported on by —but his social media postings have steered clear of discussing the issue.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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If Kate felt like the second banana in her career previously, at least that was based on her official role as Hal’s second at their various postings.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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Fourteen of his 19 pitches were fastballs.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
14 Oct. 2025
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The proposal beat out two less expensive pitches.—
IndyStar,
IndyStar,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Commercials.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commercials. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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