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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

Not because of the artificial intelligence assistant he was touting or because of the expected ad revenue growth, but because of the silver chain he was wearing around his neck.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2024

“I was touting this to some production companies and studios five years ago, saying, ‘This is a great way to test out concepts.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 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