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Like in a typical museum, you do have a little blurb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
He became so famous that at least one Random House book featured a blurb from Cerf himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
In the blurb, Busbice said his company was in the process of reshoring its manufacturing after “cleaning up the business” in the wake of disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2025
In the blurb to the exhibition, Wintour writes that she has “probably spent a year of my life waiting for fashion shows, which are famously tardy, to begin”.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024
I didn’t understand how Fred’s death could be reduced to a blurb.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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
According to Web Archive, the “Steve’s Vision” page of Garvey’s campaign website previously featured short blurbs about how he would address “education,” “quality of life,” “public safety,” “national security,” “homelessness,” and “small business.”
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
Marche and Pushkin tried to use software to create as much of “Death of an Author” as possible, including blurbs and its cover art.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 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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