playbills

noun

plural of playbill
as in handbills

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  1. flyers
  2. signs
  3. billboards
Noun
  • Premium fliers get a dedicated check-in and bag drop line, plus priority boarding.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Shelter Hope and volunteers distributed flyers across the Thousand Oaks area and began working through incoming tips about sightings of Burt, eventually tracing eyewitness reports across a roughly 10-mile radius.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
Definition of flyers
Noun
  • So those are little signs, hopefully, of the offense getting things going a little bit.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Destructive blazes in France and Spain ⁠showed signs of easing over the weekend, but several wildfires have broken out in Greece after a period of relative calm there.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of signs
Noun
  • Spotify and the Billboard Lyric Campaign Days before release, Grande partnered with Spotify to place unreleased petal lyrics on billboards in New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Sao Paulo, with five excerpts personally selected by Grande.
    — Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The government has erected large billboards warning against the trade in the parrots.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
Definition of billboards
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“Playbills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playbills. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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