shoppers

noun

plural of shopper
1
as in advertisements

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Relevance
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
  • The Texas Medical Association is also calling for restrictions on prediction markets, including requiring users to be at least 21 years old and limiting advertisements that target children and young adults.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2026
  • Some dummy accounts received advertisements for youth banking products, an indication the platform registered the person’s age range, Hammond said.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 7 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 result is one of the most extraordinary catalogs in music history.
    — Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 9 July 2026
  • A lot of musicians from your generation have been selling their catalogs lately.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of catalogs
Noun
  • Severe droughts and searing heat across vast swathes of southern Europe destroyed large parts of the olive oil harvest, culminating in a dizzying price rally that shocked industry veterans and consumers alike.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 17 July 2026
  • One report notes 55% of women experience perimenopausal symptoms in their 30s, suggesting the trend will keep pulling in younger consumers.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 16 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
  • Leader and follower Why would China, with prospects in space technology far outclassing those of Russia, seem so eager to partner with a lesser power in these kinds of programs?
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026
  • Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters used the company’s second-quarter earnings interview to try to clear the air regarding prospects for M&A, strategic partnerships and FAST channels.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 July 2026
Definition of prospects
Noun
  • For instance, imagine users asking for advice on interpersonal conflicts or looking for feedback on work collaboration with international partners.
    — Alexandra Figueroa, The Conversation, 14 July 2026
  • It’s designed for both casual users and professionals who want control over their files without the friction, whether that’s converting formats, editing text, or keeping documents organized.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026
Definition of users

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