shill

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Recent Examples of shill 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 Morihiro, Atwater Village Chef Morihiro Onodera’s omakase-only restaurant shills sushi as slow art. Lela London, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025 To quote another Kellogg’s shill, the early indications suggest that this should still be a Grrreat! fall for sports TV, although some vendors may be reduced to eating cereal for dinner. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shill
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shill
Noun
  • Adding Bahrain back into the fold could salvage a sizable chunk of those losses, with the promoter fee for the race estimated to be more than $50 million, according to the note.
    Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Don’t look now, but Live Nation is shedding its low-margin promoter roots and emerging as a dominant venue owner/operator that increasingly commands the kind of premium valuation multiple its scale, control and economics justify.
    Justin Zacks, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Run up there, get to the front.
    John Kenney, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Terrence Smith and the woman were in the middle of a heated argument in front of a building on Eastern Parkway near Utica Ave.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Critics at home and abroad have said Hungarian state media ⁠news broadcasts became a government mouthpiece under Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose government gradually shaped public media to its mold after being voted into office in 2010.
    Reuters, NBC news, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Donald Tusk‘s incoming centre-right Civic Coalition moved swiftly to fire the heads of state broadcaster TVP, with news channel TVP Info going off air for 24-hours, amid accusations that it been transformed into a mouthpiece for the PiS during its rule.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 Apr. 2026

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“Shill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shill. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.

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