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small advertisement

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noun

  1. a short, simply designed advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, usually set entirely in a small size of type See display advertisement

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Australians browsing the The Age newspaper recently may have spotted a rather startling small advertisement.

From BBC Apr. 9, 2023

Emboldened by the success of his first piano recitals in Mexico, Iturbi organized an orchestra of 75 "professors," inserted a small advertisement in a newspaper saying that he would conduct it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hence it is treated in an unjustly trivial way; the reports of theatrical productions are printed most often as space fillers or as a small advertisement in return for free tickets.

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde

If you take a half-dozen lines to the advertising clerk, he will charge you two or three dollars; and there are several hundred times as much as your small advertisement in each paper.

From Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls by Anonymous

Then people began to notice a small advertisement on the first page of the morning papers, headed The Vigilance Committee.

From The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by Stewart Edward White

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