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want ad

noun as in classified advertisement

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Example Sentences

If you look at those want ads, it’s very much racialized and sexualized.

From Time

I was living in Colorado Springs and looking through want ads in the newspaper.

Whistling over his task, Mr. Chester soon evolved the following "Want Ad."

This description of the right sort of boy is put in the form of a "Want ad" in a newspaper.

He handed it to her, and his eyes lighted on the "want ad" columns.

Before the old man could answer they had reached the want-ad counter.

Thinking that Mr. Malcom might have gone back to the want-ad department, she hastily returned there.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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