shoppers

noun

plural of shopper
1
as in advertisements

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2
as in buyers

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Recent Examples of shoppers The scanner also successfully collects shoppers’ emails, with current retailers experiencing up to a 55 percent email capture rate, allowing for enhanced customer service and email marketing opportunities after the shopper leaves the store. — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoppers
  1. advertisements
  2. buyers
  3. catalogs
  4. consumers
  5. browsers
  6. prospects
  7. users
Noun
  • And Netflix — the company that upended the pay-TV model more than a decade ago with binge-watching, password-sharing, and no advertisements — has reversed course on many of its previous strategies in an effort to keep investors happy.
    — Alex Sherman,Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Per the complaint, at least two Minneapolis properties owned by Sampson were sites where photographs of victims were taken for the advertisements and where transactions happened.
    — Nicholas Lentz, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of advertisements
Noun
  • Trade-in buyers with negative equity financed $11,164 more than the typical new car buyer.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Definition of buyers
Noun
  • It was built deliberately thin, meant for downstream catalogs to mirror rather than to serve as anyone's front end.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The news last week that producer William Orbit had died at age 69 sent people back to revisit one of the most remarkable catalogs in Nineties pop.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of catalogs
Noun
  • Moreover, because the Sears catalog did not racially discriminate, economic historians credit the catalog as a major tool for Black consumers to side-step the indignities and discrimination of Jim Crow commerce.
    — Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Social media moves rapidly and multiple trends are cycled through social feeds, and doomscrolling consumers can take in enough.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of consumers
Noun
  • Other agentic coding tools, such as Cursor and Codex from OpenAI, have also found success among programmers; AI browsers including ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet browser seek to give AI models the ability to take actions for the user on the internet.
    — Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Most browsers are now also underpinned by Chromium, a free and open-source web browser project, which was primarily developed and maintained by Google.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Definition of browsers
Noun
  • Why would a promising young researcher accept a faculty offer of $120,000 with uncertain employment prospects when a technology company or defense contractor offers $180,000 on the first day?
    — Francisco Ruiz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The war in the Middle East has made cargoes more scarce and, in turn, more expensive, raising the prospects of another energy crunch.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of prospects
Noun
  • Spyware — The iPhone Risk Spyware has targeted iPhone users many times in the past, with notable strains including NSO Group’s Pegasus, Coruna and Darksword.
    — Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Though the exact number of Polymarket users isn’t publicly disclosed, estimates indicate there are thousands of people that bet daily on the site.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of users

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