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a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest
an advertisement for special low fares to Florida and Cancún during spring break
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Recent Examples of advertisements
Disney and Nelson Peltz spent tens of millions of dollars on old-school mailers, phone calls, and advertisements trying to win over individual investors, a large block of the House of Mouse’s shareholder base.
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Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The first rollout of the ad is kicking off in conjunction with this week’s Thursday Night Football game, as the automaker aligns itself with the NFL season, one of the largest moneymakers for advertisements leading up to the Super Bowl.
—Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
In a memorandum signed on Tuesday, the President ordered federal health agencies to enforce existing rules about misleading prescription drug advertisements.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
The streaming platform is available to watch for free (with advertisements) or without advertisements through tiered subscriptions.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
British telecom company Vodafone is testing the limits of technology by using an AI influencer in its advertisements.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
She was featured in Vogue Italia in September 2012, and has modeled in multiple advertisements in the years since, including Topshop, Inez and Lands' End.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
There were fewer people passing by the Crest each day and spotting advertisements for upcoming shows.
—Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Lowell’s lectures, reproduced in The Atlantic Monthly and in book form, began to sell the public on the idea, and, as American popular culture started to become more unified, Mars—and Martians—became a meme, popping up everywhere from advertisements to vaudeville.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The first rollout of the ad is kicking off in conjunction with this week’s Thursday Night Football game, as the automaker aligns itself with the NFL season, one of the largest moneymakers for advertisements leading up to the Super Bowl.
—Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
In a memorandum signed on Tuesday, the President ordered federal health agencies to enforce existing rules about misleading prescription drug advertisements.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
The streaming platform is available to watch for free (with advertisements) or without advertisements through tiered subscriptions.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
British telecom company Vodafone is testing the limits of technology by using an AI influencer in its advertisements.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
She was featured in Vogue Italia in September 2012, and has modeled in multiple advertisements in the years since, including Topshop, Inez and Lands' End.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
There were fewer people passing by the Crest each day and spotting advertisements for upcoming shows.
—Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Lowell’s lectures, reproduced in The Atlantic Monthly and in book form, began to sell the public on the idea, and, as American popular culture started to become more unified, Mars—and Martians—became a meme, popping up everywhere from advertisements to vaudeville.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for advertisements
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In some comical cases, the ads were served by Google’s ad server to Google’s own bots.—
Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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If drugmakers were forced to include a comprehensive and complete list of side effects, one media executive says, the result would be ads that are unworkably long for TV, which is built around 15-, 30-, and 60-second commercials.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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NurPhoto via Getty Images Artificial intelligence is in an arms race of scale with bigger models, more parameters, and more compute driving competing announcements that seem to come out on a daily basis.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The announcements arrives weeks after a lawsuit filed by parents whose 16-year-old son died by suicide following extensive interactions with ChatGPT.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
16 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Advertisements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/advertisements. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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