Thesaurus results for SHILL

shill

noun

Definition of shill

as in promoter

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Recent Examples of shill The announcers, conveniently, get into the act, conscripted shills for their betting partners. — 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 See All Example Sentences for shill

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shill

Noun

The idea sometimes asserted by promoters that asset protection planning can allow a person to decrease their insurance coverage is false.

— Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Those recommendations can expose investors to steep losses, particularly when promoters use their audiences to inflate a token's price before selling their own holdings, a practice commonly known as a pump-and-dump scheme.

— Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of promoter

Noun

The exact timing of the front remains uncertain, and if the storms arrive a little sooner, the severe threat will not be as great as Monday.

— Andrew Kozak, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
When units find technology that performs well at an acceptable cost, adoption can spread quickly across the front.

— David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026