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Recent Examples of shill
Morihiro, Atwater Village Chef Morihiro Onodera’s omakase-only restaurant shills sushi as slow art.
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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
Here, a pair of Marvel superheroes shill for A.I. glasses with an assist from the Kardashian matriarch.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 9 Feb. 2025
The Athletic has become a bit of a shill for 115 FC, seemingly quite credulous in the face of the overwhelming evidence.. much of which comes from their own emails.
—Sam Lee, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
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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
Here, a pair of Marvel superheroes shill for A.I. glasses with an assist from the Kardashian matriarch.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 9 Feb. 2025
The Athletic has become a bit of a shill for 115 FC, seemingly quite credulous in the face of the overwhelming evidence.. much of which comes from their own emails.
—Sam Lee, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shill
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Thornton, a longtime Eagle resident who co-founded The Big Easy in 2000 — now called the Knitting Factory Concert House in downtown Boise — is the president of promoter Live Nation’s mountain region.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
22 Jan. 2026
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And King was the most prominent promoter of this approach.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2026
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Ferguson then explained the forces that had to converge to lead the series' casting director, Jeff Greenberg, to walk directly into a glass wall in front of the whole cast and crew.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Jan. 2026
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And after losing to the 49ers this season, McVay's Rams won their next six games, established themselves as Super Bowl contenders and pushed 17th-year quarterback Matthew Stafford to the front of the league MVP race.—
Mirjam Swanson The Orange County Register,
Arkansas Online,
22 Jan. 2026
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Perhaps knowing how the scene might look to a homeowner confronting a staggering electric bill, the mouthpieces for these corporate titans claimed a sort of populism.—
Nick Bowlin,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Kayhan, a hard-line newspaper considered the mouthpiece of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called Grossi, who is Catholic, a Mossad agent.—
Robin Wright,
New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2025
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“Shill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shill. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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