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[brand] / brænd /


brand




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label negatively
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"It humbles me greatly that the words that I coined for the brand- protest, visibility, unity and equality - will be on an actual coin, opposite the Queen," he said.

From BBC ● May 18, 2022

Every view is a good view; it’s brand- new, so it’s hard not to like; and the acoustics are great.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2019

That shrinks the already small field of venders in the brand- and manufacturer-loyal industry, threatening higher prices as demand swells.

From Reuters ● Jul. 30, 2012

Another bull of the woods, Albert Gadwah, 79, showed up wearing a brand- new red shirt, size extra large.

From Time Magazine Archive

The best part was the surprise he had hidden on the front porch, a brand- new television set with a big screen.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

In 1980, she launched her own costume brand with her husband, called Genesis Mask Band.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Others joked that a protest about commodity futures was distinctly on brand for the University of Chicago, the birthplace of the Chicago School of economics.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

This includes two brand new works, as well as a nearly 30-foot piece from 2021, “Sumptuous Memories of Plundering Kings,” never before seen in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Gina Goetter, who serves as both finance chief and chief operating officer, attributed the third-quarter results to a strong brand portfolio and execution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Meanwhile, Old Familiar cawed and hunted brand flies.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

The massive merchandising push around the 2028 Summer Olympics will also include global brands such as Nike and Ralph Lauren.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

It spun off its ice-cream arm into a business now known as Magnum Ice Cream, sold its tea unit and divested its margarine and spreads brands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Joel Marlinarson, who advises brands on social media strategy, says Kylie Jenner represents a "new age of celebrity"

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

To make the most of the buzz around the World Cup, Beal said brands would be smart to engage Gen Alpha—and their Gen Z or millennial parents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

They were too far away for him to see the brands, and the light brown spots were difficult to make out on their light hides, but they moved like deer, on long thin legs.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Taylor Farms maintained that its own branded salad kits were unaffected, a distinction that mattered scientifically, if not necessarily psychologically, to shoppers eyeing the refrigerated wall of greens.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

“We ask that he be treated as a neighbor, rather than branded as a criminal,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Mungiu’s prickly, nonjudgmental studies of human behavior have sometimes led him to be branded as a provocateur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

But although the landing of Beagle 2 was successful, it was branded as a failed mission as it was unable to connect back to Earth once it landed.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The sloping-shouldered figure of Alecto Carrow was standing before him, and even as Harry raised his wand, she pressed a stubby forefinger to the skull and snake branded on her forearm.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Some also said they had not authorised the use of their branding, and some said they would not accept certificates provided through the company's training.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Katie: No, in the same way most of us don’t pick a restaurant based on its branding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Some trains are already covered in distinctive GBR branding, but the organisation still doesn't exist.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

For a disease that doesn’t kill very many people in modern times, it certainly has terrible branding.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Segregationists singled out Reverend Martin Luther King,Jr., branding him a “troublemaker,” an “outsider” who had come from Adanta to stir up local blacks.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose


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