as in customer
a person who buys goods and services
Most consumers are comfortable making purchases on the Internet.
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Recent Examples of consumer
BestReviews spends thousands of hours researching, analyzing and testing products to recommend the best picks for most consumers.
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
Approximately, 74 percent of consumers are now willing to pay a premium for fully traceable items.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 21 Apr. 2026
Competition drives innovation, lowers prices, and gives consumers real choice.
—Letitia James, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
Beyond seeking to reduce emissions, the push is part of efforts to court younger consumers who, Simmons noted, were put off by the environmental impact of eating meat as well as concerns surrounding animal welfare.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 21 Apr. 2026
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
Approximately, 74 percent of consumers are now willing to pay a premium for fully traceable items.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 21 Apr. 2026
Competition drives innovation, lowers prices, and gives consumers real choice.
—Letitia James, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
Beyond seeking to reduce emissions, the push is part of efforts to court younger consumers who, Simmons noted, were put off by the environmental impact of eating meat as well as concerns surrounding animal welfare.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 21 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for consumer
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Sports franchises everywhere can be tacky, rapacious, incompetent, extortionate, and otherwise exploitative, but only because their customers, the fans, are essentially captives.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
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Since the market re-opened late in 2025, drawing thousands of customers eager for the shakes and baked goods, the owners decided to keep it open an extra month this spring.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
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This livestream is well worth a watch, with active chat users often sharing timestamps of meteor sightings and occasionally rarer phenomena like atmospheric sprites!—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Consumer response has been mixed, but Apple continues to sell boatloads of iPhones, and users are getting plenty of AI options on those devices —just from other companies.—
Jennifer Elias,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2026
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For many years, Libby Gelman-Waxner, then an assistant buyer in juniors’ activewear, moonlighted for Premiere magazine and Entertainment Weekly as the world’s most beloved and irresponsible movie critic.—
Libby Gelman-Waxner,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2026
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Whether that quicker fill-up and extra function is worth those extra grams or not is up to each buyer.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Apr. 2026
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On April 16, the OCTC seized four boxes with 97 files and downloaded numerous clients’ immigration documents from a pair of computers.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2026
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During a court appearance on Tuesday, Terry's lawyer, Steven Yermish, asked Judge Ellen Sue Venzer to grant his client a new trial, arguing that inadmissible evidence was presented at trial at the end of last year, the outlet reported.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Consumer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consumer. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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