classified ad
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of classified ad
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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He saw a classified ad in the San Diego Union-Tribune in 1987 and applied for a role as a technician.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
Craigslist, which started as an email distribution list in 1995, dominated as a virtual classified ad for just about anything you could think of, including bikes, patio tables and guitar amps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
The commission, the 27-nation bloc’s top antitrust enforcer, said Meta also imposes unfair trading conditions on competing online classified ad companies that advertise their services on Facebook or Instagram.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
His first children's writing job resulted from answering a classified ad, and his horror writing break came after an editor was angry at someone else.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022
And when the Graphic View II arrived, procured secondhand from a classified ad, well loved and packed into its own case like an expensive violin, Mia knew this would be true.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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