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[blurb] / blɜrb /


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Lee and I called on James Buchanan, the 1986 Nobel laureate in economics, to write a blurb for our book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The online blurb says the book is a "darkly humorous novel that uses the deftest touch to draw a thread through the lives of Welsh farmers, city accountants, Indian hoteliers and Eisteddfod mums".

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

Busbice, in a blurb written before March 27, specifically cited a 20% increase in the tariff on all imported goods and the 25% tax on metal goods, in particular.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2025

The public safety blurb was also expanded to clarify that Garvey supports “more training, better resources, and effective crime prevention strategies.”

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2024

But it sounded like, "Blah, blah, blurb," and darn it all, he lost the whole bite of apricots, right down his bib.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

I didn’t read the glowing blurbs for a first-time author from Gwyneth Paltrow, Gloria Steinem, Chanel Miller and Mariska Hargitay.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Listening to that, you get a much better sense of who this young woman is, as opposed to the social media blurbs and the gossip magazines,” Ed Kelce said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

After the debate, “Steve’s Vision” was updated with several more short blurbs and some bolded words.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2024

Two other blurbs on the cover read: "paranoid and mercurial" and "understanding how Emperor Chongzhen drove himself to a dead end".

From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023

They'll be quoted, parsed, fact-checked, eviscerated by those who disagree, and then forgotten in the wake of new blurbs that come out tomorrow.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon




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