as in oral
made or carried on through speaking rather than in writing
not having the money to run ads, the restaurant relies on word-of-mouth publicity
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Recent Examples of word-of-mouth
Still, those mixed scores don’t bode well for word-of-mouth.
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Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 Mar. 2025
Its work for the Motown Revue packed the names of the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas and the Four Tops on sheets of cardboard that found their way onto telephone poles and vacant buildings, creating an effective, but cheap, word-of-mouth sales campaign for the performers.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2025
Egg-selling has been a word-of-mouth business for Finley; her clients include local bakeries, salon clients, neighbors and others on an ever-growing waitlist.
—Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
The book was released by Ecco in spring 2022 and became a word-of-mouth sensation, growing to become the top-selling book of 2023, according to certain book tracking publications.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
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Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 Mar. 2025
Its work for the Motown Revue packed the names of the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas and the Four Tops on sheets of cardboard that found their way onto telephone poles and vacant buildings, creating an effective, but cheap, word-of-mouth sales campaign for the performers.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2025
Egg-selling has been a word-of-mouth business for Finley; her clients include local bakeries, salon clients, neighbors and others on an ever-growing waitlist.
—Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
The book was released by Ecco in spring 2022 and became a word-of-mouth sensation, growing to become the top-selling book of 2023, according to certain book tracking publications.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Word-of-mouth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/word-of-mouth. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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