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Recent Examples of shill
The announcers, conveniently, get into the act, conscripted shills for their betting partners.
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Sports Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2025
Trump will destroy his reputation and loose [sic] his entire base, shills and apologists included.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Immediately after Aldean’s second opening act Nate Smith’s performance, Aldean popped up on the screens to shill for the company in a prerecorded ad.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
One prompt turned Gemini into a shill for an imaginary product.
—PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
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Sports Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2025
Trump will destroy his reputation and loose [sic] his entire base, shills and apologists included.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Immediately after Aldean’s second opening act Nate Smith’s performance, Aldean popped up on the screens to shill for the company in a prerecorded ad.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
One prompt turned Gemini into a shill for an imaginary product.
—PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shill
Noun
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Live Nation Israel was formed in 2017 (along with Ticketmaster Israel) when the concert giant took majority ownership in Israeli concert-production company Bluestone, a joint venture between Guy Oseary, Madonna’s longtime manager, Beser, veteran Israeli promoter Shay Mor Yosef, and others.—
Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
14 May 2026
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Bambo follows a 1980s Brooklyn boxing promoter and his daughter.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
14 May 2026
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Smugglers Run has always been full of distractions, as the screen — in front and somewhat above guests — pulls viewers away from the seat-adjacent wall controls.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2026
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The service South Africa’s hospitality culture, to many, is par excellence, and Echo’s nearly all-South African front-of-house team feels like a natural extension of this (just in briskier climes).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 May 2026
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Out back, a small sewage-treatment plant converts bodily waste from two flanking portable toilets into purified water, which is piped into a large tank in which yet another unclothed woman, wearing a scuba mouthpiece, floats for four hours at a time.—
Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
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He's also vowed to suspend the news services of Hungary's public broadcaster — widely seen as a mouthpiece of Orbán's party — until objectivity can be restored.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 May 2026
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“Shill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shill. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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