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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
Noun
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The friend who went to the nightclub with Rodriguez, and was at the apartment while she was raped, confronted the promoter who first invited them to the club the next day, according to the lawsuit.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2026
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The tour will be a nostalgia rush filled with era-defining hits, as the tour’s promoter Live Nation describes it.—
Rashad Alexander,
Kansas City Star,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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On the production front, Micron excels in advanced DRAM nodes, including the early sampling of 1-gamma DRAM using EUV.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Aaron Glenn stood in front of a crowd of reporters, Jets staffers and former Jets players at his introductory news conference as the franchise’s new head coach and announced to the world that things were going to be different with him in charge.—
Zack Rosenblatt,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But if those people are genuinely concerned about how Trump's policies are affecting everyday people, their rage should potentially be focused more at the underlying structures of the administration than at one of its minor mouthpieces.—
Leah Donnella,
NPR,
9 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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“Shill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shill. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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