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
  • Other countries have already taken aggressive steps to curb some of the industry’s more problematic products, from marketing practices to advertisements.
    — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Backlash grew during the FIFA World Cup when advertisements were ubiquitous and the number of people betting surged.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Sep. 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, 21 Oct. 2025
Definition of buyers
Noun
  • Growth in appliance-garage and appliance-lift SKUs in 2025 catalogs from major cabinet brands.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
  • On the editorial side, this includes the licenses for reproductions in books like exhibition catalogs, scholarly tomes, and even the covers of novels, as well as publications, for news coverage and criticism for exhibitions as well as general use.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of catalogs
Noun
  • But Barra knows that the idea will make some consumers uneasy—and GM, more than most companies, knows exactly what happens when customers don’t feel safe.
    — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • That is the real opportunity for brands today—not controlling every conversation, but creating enough emotional resonance so consumers can continue the story.
    — Alvin Stafford, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 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
  • Council faces the loss of a fourth and final season of D-I NCAA competition (after two years of JUCO), his associated NIL earning potential, and a meaningful setback to his professional basketball prospects.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) also showed that layoffs fell and the number of people quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence in their prospects — was little changed in August.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of prospects
Noun
  • Organizations must also prioritize educating all users, from classroom teachers and administrative staff to senior leadership, on their roles.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Many of their users describe feeling real grief when an app is updated or withdrawn.
    — Pascal Vrticka, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of users

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“Shoppers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoppers. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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