tout
verb (used without object)
to persistently solicit business, employment, votes, or the like.
was touting
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past progressiveof tout.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Around that time, the Dubai media office’s social-media account was touting record airline performance, road construction projects, and free entry for children at a garden attraction—but nothing on the looming war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
For Bondi, a woman who just hours ago was touting the president’s work ethic, there was hell to pay.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2025
The boy grew up playing soccer most every day at school, near his home and even on holidays, but now this strange man was touting another sport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
The photos, which Meta restored, had been posted by a Brazilian Instagram user who was touting a breast cancer awareness campaign.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
In fact, the “bloodbath” school of criminology was touting exactly the opposite theory—that an increase in the teenage share of the population would produce a crop of superpredators who would lay the nation low.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
