as in hype
information released to the media that is designed to gain public attention or support for a person, business, or cause an endless flow of publicity for our charity event resulted in a great turnout

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Recent Examples of publicity As Deadline reported exclusively today, several hundred employees are being laid off globally, with Disney Entertainment’s film and television marketing as well as television publicity, casting and development, as main targets. Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 2 June 2025 Venus also slips into Taurus, dazzling your 10th house of career and publicity. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 June 2025 As nearly a dozen publicity veterans told me, somewhere along the line, the press rounds mutated into something unruly. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 May 2025 Reubens pleaded no contest, to avoid the publicity of a trial, but the damage was done. Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for publicity
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Noun
  • Clients respond to credibility, not hype, so influence must be earned through reputation rather than borrowed from others.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • So McDonald’s is going all out with the Snack Wrap hype.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • More than 3 billion people use one of Meta’s apps daily, and the company makes billions of dollars every quarter from advertising.
    Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
  • Recognizing this, Samovar upset the traditional rules of advertising in 1960 by hiring five women to help market their vodka.
    Time, Time, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Copywriters work on a range of projects such as social media posts, blog articles, website copy and advertisements.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • There were no massive rallies or advertisement blitzes in a contest that largely played out on social media.
    Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025

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“Publicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/publicity. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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