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British sprinter Amy Hunt says she is concerned about the controversial advert starring Sydney Sweeney being part of a "barrier" to girls' participation in sport.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Hunt said the responses to Sweeney's advert have eclipsed the controversy.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Earlier this week, PGA Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp said the circuit was dismayed by the advert, describing Good Good's initial handling of the controversy as "disappointing."
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Good Good Golf, which centers its business around a successful YouTube channel aimed at bringing a younger audience to the sport, had already apologized for the controversial advert.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
It wasn’t exactly like the magazine advert we’d found on the ground that day, but then it wasn’t so far off either.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Baker said the watchdog had taken "proactive action" with its rulings, as part of a wider "zero-tolerance approach" to such adverts.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The agency advertised the events as taking place in Saint Petersburg's Gazprom Arena, with the stadium itself sharing adverts for the upcoming concert on its Telegram account.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 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
Complaints regarding television and live streaming service adverts for the film were not upheld by the regulator, as Clearcast - which pre-approves TV and streaming ads - had applied a post-19:30 scheduling restriction.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
We'd miss the adverts and Coming Soons, but a lady with a torch'd show us our seats for the film.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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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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There is another case which is so familiar to economists that it need merely be adverted to.
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson
The loquacious captain, an uncommon quality in a Yankee, could not conceal his astonishment at encountering an Austrian man-of-war in such a latitude in mid-ocean, and adverted to this unexpected phenomenon.
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
Well, he can gaze at the rising sun without adverting the head or squinting or 232 shedding a tear.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
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