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  • noun Plural form of advert.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advert.

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Examples

  • Copy in adverts is different because its usually small quantities of short sentances (except ‘situations vacant’, where everyone tries to cram as many words into the box as possible).

    For font bores strictly « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008

  • The Government-supported campaign, which includes press and television adverts, is sponsored by the Carbon Usage Negation Trustee Society, a new environmental group posing radical solutions to the problems of global warming.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • He appeared in adverts and the TV adventure The Camerons (1974), for the Children's Film Foundation.

    Gerard Kelly obituary Mark Fisher 2010

  • The Government-supported campaign, which includes press and television adverts, is sponsored by the Carbon Usage Negation Trustee Society, a new environmental group posing radical solutions to the problems of global warming.

    Greens Call for Pet Deaths to Save Planet Dungeekin 2009

  • All I see here is McCain adverts being posted as free publicity for McCain.

    The Next Round of the TV Ad Wars… - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The problem with most of these adverts is that there are so many of them that seem so similar, they just become a blur to you.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • The problem with most of these adverts is that there are so many of them that seem so similar, they just become a blur to you.

    Top 5 Creative Ads from Africa 2007

  • The “difficult constitutional position” to which Toque adverts is one entirely of the making of Brown and the Scots Junta and concerning which the Tories and others who opposed devolution in the first place explicitly warned.

    Archive 2007-05-13 2007

  • "Printed writing is very much design-led these days in adverts and Web sites, and people feel that hyphens mess up the look of a nice bit of typography," he said.

    Thousands of Hyphen to Perish as English Marches On | Impact Lab 2007

  • Whether airlines use "come hither" adverts is entirely up to them.

    Oh p-leeze… Richard 2006

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