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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shill
Noun
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While living in Dubai, Kinahan presented himself as a legitimate boxing promoter.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2026
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King is a prominent boxing promoter who has worked with some of the most successful boxers over the course of his 50-year career.—
PEOPLE,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Jonathan Melo was assaulted in front of an apartment building on Beach Ave.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
30 Apr. 2026
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The Seahawks leaned on a collective pass rush rather than one dominant star, finishing the season as one of the league’s more effective defensive fronts.—
Jackson Thompson OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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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 2 May. 2026.
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