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brand-

[brand] / brænd /


brand




VERB
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

It's also rumored to include brand- new entertainment and digital imaging features, but Sony was cagy about the details.

From Time Magazine Archive

And on some level, I expected a brand- new Birmingham—a friendlier and more accommodating Birmingham, where my children could experience the freedom that had been lacking for me as a child.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

Spending another 15 minutes searching for a particular brand of yogurt may represent good service, but it also consumes time that a worker could otherwise spend completing another order.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

For Cris Njoki, founder of IKOJN, a Kenyan ready-to-wear clothes brand, the problem lay further up the supply chain.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

While she says fans can mostly expect her brand of uplifting records on the album, she says it's also more personal than her usual work.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

A24 has built something rarer and more valuable: a brand identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Remind me which brand of diabetic food he’s on?”

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

State-backed companies are flooding the region with cash, tourism pumped $50 billion into the local economy last year, and shopping malls are jammed with Western brands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

In China, the market for "legacy premium brands is in severe decline due to intense competition from new Chinese alternatives, basically eliminating profitability for legacy premium brands," the chief executive said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

International hotel brands have moved in, including Hyatt, IHG and Marriott.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Shares in Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars plunged Friday after it said US tariffs and strong competition from local brands in China pushed it into a third-quarter loss.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The phone booth was decorated with faded stickers for bands I’d never heard of and brands that sounded only vaguely familiar—relics of rebel kids long since assimilated into adulthood.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

In comment fields online, some branded it the "worst Games in history" and urged a "full investigation".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Taylor Farms maintained that its own branded salad kits were unaffected, a distinction that mattered scientifically, if not necessarily psychologically, to shoppers eyeing the refrigerated wall of greens.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Mungiu’s prickly, nonjudgmental studies of human behavior have sometimes led him to be branded as a provocateur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The strategy also stands to benefit from Levi’s plan to open more branded stores, where it can tightly control its visual merchandising and cross-sell full outfits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Things were bad enough between Dorian and the king; he didn’t need to be branded as a rebel sympathizer.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Tech companies are also increasingly branding AI assistants as cute mascots, a choice that some say encourages users to project personalities and emotions onto the agent.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

When his wife supported him, branding young Amy Acton a liar, both the girl and her younger brother were removed from Donna Arthur’s custody and raised by their biological father.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Some also said they had not authorised the use of their branding, and some said they would not accept certificates provided through the company's training.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Large law firms are adopting modern corporate branding to recruit lawyers and win clients amid fierce competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

A second man stuck two branding irons into the metal basket to heat them up.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson


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