as in advertisements
a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest
did you see the ads in the paper for cheap round-trip flights to Florida?
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Recent Examples of ads
Since their inception, social media companies have implemented protective measures for users such as filtering bullying comments and enabling minors to opt out of seeing personalized ads.
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Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026
Instead, the government attorneys and deputy sheriffs’ association spent about $625,000 on digital ads and mailers featuring county Sheriff Bob Jonsen, Mahan and, most prominently, Rosen.
—Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
Moriarty pushed back hard, publicly calling out Reno and even taking out ads in industry trade magazines to defend creative expression.
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Jan. 2026
Decades later, fans were quick to recognize her as the child star who helped define a generation of family-friendly ads.
—Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
Lamont spent $8 million on television ads in the last five weeks of the campaign, more than the total spending Citizens’ Election Program would have allowed over the entirety of the campaign.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
Spotify now says the ICE ads stopped running at the end of 2025—meaning Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by an ICE agent did not play a factor in the ads' disappearance.
—Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2026
Creators don’t have to accept Beehiiv’s ads, says Denk.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
But according to the spokesperson, the two situations were unrelated, as the end of the ICE ads on the platform came weeks before the incident.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ads
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In November, Rolling Stone reported that Spotify had received $74,000 from the Department of Homeland Security to run their advertisements, while Google and YouTube were paid $3 million on Spanish-language advertising promoting self-deportation, according to Equis data.—
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An industry source told Rolling Stone at the time that Spotify had received $74,000 from DHS to run its advertisements.—
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But both the timing and symbolism of the latest announcements by European nations are a significant show of solidarity at a time of unprecedented tension within NATO.—
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Others automakers, such as Ford and GM, made significant announcements in 2025, just as uncertainty about the near future of EV sales began to grow.—
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“Ads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ads. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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