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The 66-year-old scanned a QR code on the advert, using an app he had downloaded.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
American company Good Good, which has 2.13m subscribers to its golf channel on YouTube and sponsors a PGA Tour tournament, had created and published the advert for golf club manufacturer Callaway.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
He famously did an advert for Brut aftershave with British boxer Henry Cooper, as well as the "Green Cross Code" road safety campaign.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
For Megan Hapeman, it's the recent McDonald's advert in which Beckham hopes to receive a cup featuring his own face.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
It had fallen open at this glossy double page advert, and though the paper had gone soggy and there was mud at one corner, you could see it well enough.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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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
At 37, Wang Zhuang had almost given up hope of finding a wife, until he saw the glossy matchmaking adverts.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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
The hydration breaks take place 22 minutes into each half and have been used to show adverts on some US networks.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
And adverts are pictures or television programs to make you buy things like cars or Snickers or use an Internet Service Provider.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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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
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I have already adverted to the diminished stature of Anthonomus ater, Mshm, and Ceutorhynchus contractus, Mshm, in Lundy Island,—the first of which scarcely ever reaches, on that rock, more than half its natural bulk.
From On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera by Thomas Vernon Wollaston
He had in his former lectures spoken of Time and Eternity—he had called Time a distraction of Eternity—he had adverted to those ecstacies of great Saints, which he called transitions to Eternity.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich Schlegel
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
In 1712 a message from the Crown, adverting to the undesirable character of the new development of newspaper enterprise, recommended that a remedy be found without delay.
From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by A. D. Smith
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