shoppers

noun

plural of shopper
1
as in advertisements

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2
as in buyers

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Recent Examples of shoppers The scanner also successfully collects shoppers’ emails, with current retailers experiencing up to a 55 percent email capture rate, allowing for enhanced customer service and email marketing opportunities after the shopper leaves the store. — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoppers
  1. advertisements
  2. buyers
  3. catalogs
  4. consumers
  5. browsers
  6. prospects
  7. users
Noun
  • Those include a partnership with the official prediction market sponsor of the World Cup, ADI Predictstreet, to feature co-branding advertisements in stadiums.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 19 July 2026
  • Ignore those advertisements touting the benefits of supplements claiming to address the need for extra protein or vitamins presurgery.
    — The Editors, Robb Report, 19 July 2026
Definition of advertisements
Noun
  • Trade-in buyers with negative equity financed $11,164 more than the typical new car buyer.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Definition of buyers
Noun
  • The author hopes this encourages other companies to digitize and make their full retro catalogs widely accessible, potentially boosting Xbox's standing.
    — Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Instead of chasing gimmicks, outrageous acceleration figures, or dashboard designs inspired by IKEA catalogs, Toyota focused on making an electric crossover that just does its job.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 July 2026
Definition of catalogs
Noun
  • The energy industry’s remarkable workarounds to the world’s biggest-ever oil shock have insulated consumers from an inflation and affordability crisis.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
  • Since that 2023 ban, consumers have turned to alternative sources—including suppliers in China—which puts them in danger, advocates for peptides say.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 23 July 2026
Definition of consumers
Noun
  • Other agentic coding tools, such as Cursor and Codex from OpenAI, have also found success among programmers; AI browsers including ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet browser seek to give AI models the ability to take actions for the user on the internet.
    — Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Most browsers are now also underpinned by Chromium, a free and open-source web browser project, which was primarily developed and maintained by Google.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Definition of browsers
Noun
  • After the triumph of Spain’s golden generation, Perez and Madrid spent significant funds on the most promising prospects in Spanish football.
    — Pol Ballús, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • Still, Oracle shares are down 38% this year, as investors have grown concerned that AI could hurt growth prospects for software incumbents.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 23 July 2026
Definition of prospects
Noun
  • According to the report, Apple will ask people to share the message to help the iPhone maker protect users from future attacks.
    — Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Other social media users argued that the trailer was scary enough that theaters should warn audiences about the imagery in the clip before showing the full preview.
    — Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 21 July 2026
Definition of users

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