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[ad-vurt] / ædˈvɜrt /


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Meanwhile Joe Marler, probably still edging Pollock in the crossover star stakes, has previously taken to the field with an advert for team-mate Olly Kohn's sausage company shaved into his head.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

He answered an advert on a college noticeboard for a drummer to join a band called Smile that included Brian May.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

A TikTok advert for the scheme tells viewers it offers passengers TfW's "best value fare".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Hunt said the responses to Sweeney's advert have eclipsed the controversy.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

It wasn’t exactly like the magazine advert we’d found on the ground that day, but then it wasn’t so far off either.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

The agency advertised the events as taking place in Saint Petersburg's Gazprom Arena, with the stadium itself sharing adverts for the upcoming concert on its Telegram account.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

The company has previously got into hot water with the UK advertising watchdog, which has banned some of its adverts for making "misleading" claims.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Complaints regarding television and live streaming service adverts for the film were not upheld by the regulator, as Clearcast - which pre-approves TV and streaming ads - had applied a post-19:30 scheduling restriction.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Danish pharmaceuticals heavyweight Novo Nordisk said Tuesday it is suing its arch US rival, Eli Lilly, over "false and materially misleading" adverts for their competing weight-loss and anti-diabetes treatments.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

‘It looks funny, people walking around like signposts, or billboard adverts.’

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

On his person he bore the marks of these perils of the laboratory; but they were little heeded by him, and, when adverted to, always afforded him the occasion of some good-humoured pleasantry.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2015

I'm not certain how disaster can be adverted when an inferior service will cost more money.

From Economist ● Dec. 14, 2013

It was strange she never once adverted either to her mother’s illness, or her brother’s death, or the present gloomy state of the family prospects.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

He then adverted to his past history, and told them how much he had suffered in consequence of their divisions and quarrels.

From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by William Henry Gray

Thus even of the Giulietta, to whom I have adverted above, I have heard only casual mention by himself, and to this tender topic he would not suffer even his oldest friends to make allusion.

From Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler

The decline in ratings has put pressure on adverting dollars as well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the consortium, welcomed the delay on adverting rules as "one less distraction" for companies looking to focus on keeping prices down.

From BBC ● May 14, 2022

The human element in this example could have played multiple factors in adverting the breach or at the very least discovered it a lot sooner.

From Forbes ● Jan. 5, 2015

Much of this tracking is for adverting purposes: to collect data on you to show you more relevant ads.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2013

The conversation now changed, and for several miles we rode along, conversing of the scenes of the war, without adverting to the Bayards or to marriages.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper




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