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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

So there I was... deep in the Canadian wilderness at the helm of a brand- new $74,000 Range Rover perched precariously atop what seemed little more than a rockslide.

From Time Magazine Archive

If I placed a safety pin on a steel railroad track and let a train run over it, the safety pin would turn into a pair of bright brand- new scissors.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

A drive-through brand opening walk-up shops also flips the recent strategic swerve by chains like Shake Shack and Chipotle toward car-centric formats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

She has a video series on Instagram she calls Saucy Sundéts; maybe that becomes a brand that she takes into grocery stores some day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

From going unbeaten in his opening nine games with a refreshing brand of football, the consensus was things had gone flat and that the head coach was bearing the brunt of it.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Sonos CMO Colleen DeCourcy is surrounding herself with creative “player-coaches” and opening a “creative cultural space” in New York as she strives to move the brand past memories of its botched app update.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Father also talked about these things, but hearing it now, it all seemed brand new.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

The analyst said that Asian brands are expected to account for more than half of US new vehicle sales in the third quarter, for the second quarter in a row, "approaching record-high market share levels."

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

In the sneaker business, it can be tempting for fast-moving brands to flood the market with shoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Both companies boast century-old studios, beloved media brands and a recent past that has included several fraught mergers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Four hundred SKUs spread across multiple brands means that Conagra has varieties that are competing against each other,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Tucked throughout are nests of the lesser brands, such as Athletic Works, Basic Equipment, and the whimsical Looney Tunes, Pooh, and Mickey lines, generally decorated with images of their eponymous characters.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

He also admitted stealing items of NHS branded clothing, a pager, and perfume.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The prime minister will tell party activists in Liverpool that the new publicly owned company, branded Great British Grid, will speed up grid hook-ups by driving up competition for connection projects.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Banks signed on to provide tens of billions of dollars in loans to build the facilities, which were branded as being part of OpenAI’s Stargate initiative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Trendy direct-to-consumer caviar brands are offering cutely branded tins at such low prices that the industry is facing an identity crisis, the Journal’s Jamie Waters reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

It doesn’t hurt when he scans me, but I still feel like I’ve been branded.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

The branding push comes as public anxiety over job losses and existential risks to humanity from AI mount.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In-N-Out has an extensive record of defending its trademark and has frequently taken or threatened legal action against entities accused of copying its menu or branding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Radburn said it was "remarkable" to find records of the branding "buried in a very nondescript sounding volume: 'The Register of Instruments'".

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

A CNN spokesperson also objected to the "unauthorized" use of the network's branding, saying the videos "are not CNN content and have no affiliation with CNN."

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

The result is a system of stratification based on the “official certification of individual character and competence”—a form of branding by the government.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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