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noun

plural of blurb
as in messages
a short description that praises something (such as a book) so that people will want to buy it a blurb on a book jacket

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verb

present tense third-person singular of blurb
as in features

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Recent Examples of blurbs
Noun
The next email had a slick poster promoting the Zoom event, with the book cover as the backdrop and blurbs from the Economist and other publications. — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 13 Oct. 2026 Pique, a digital newsletter of mostly photos and short blurbs that publishes monthly. — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026 Throughout the bar are blurbs of information on cases and criminals, researched by Rose and the team. — Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2026 What’s more, none of those spaces are traditionally edited—as both of us are aware, having both had Indie Next blurbs go to print with typos. — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026 The Downshift sums up stories in short blurbs with links to the source for the full report. — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 16 July 2026 There was a prefatory letter by Archibald MacLeish, a professor at Harvard and a former Librarian of Congress, and an introduction by Mark Schorer, a professor of English at Berkeley, along with blurbs from other eminent men of letters. — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 The book carried blurbs from prominent journalists, including Nicholas Thompson, The Atlantic’s chief executive, and a foreword by Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize–winning reporter from the Philippines. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 24 May 2026 The blurbs below come courtesy of the AFI Fest team. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blurbs
  1. messages
  2. features
  3. postings
  4. rings
  5. brochures
  6. reports
  7. words
  8. puffs
Noun
  • Though postponed, the 73-year-old musician knew the band’s messages would land with as much timeliness as ever.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The bulk of the population actually engages in a rather high volume of daily digital reading--captions, emails, text and chat messages, news feeds, search results, etc.
    — Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of messages
Verb
  • The label, which features a Japanese denim line, went public on the Tokyo stock exchange in 2025 at a valuation of roughly $460 million.
    — Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • It is remodeled with stylish carpeting, a warm color pallet, and features an attractive tray ceiling with subtle trim work.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of features
Noun
  • The average salary for a custodian in California is around $43,500 a year, according to an average of job postings listed on Indeed.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Since 2022, postings demanding AI fluency have risen elevenfold, those seeking adaptability fivefold, and those requiring resilience, curiosity and willingness to learn threefold.
    — Eric Kutcher, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of postings
Verb
  • Much like a tuning fork, the resonator also rings when struck.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Well, that promise now rings hollow in the ears of every TSA worker today.
    — Hydrick Thomas, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of rings
Noun
  • But business-development brochures were never such grim reading.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Movies, television, and college brochures still default to the classic image of the carefree co-ed moving into a dorm.
    — Ruth Bauer, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of brochures
Verb
  • Analysts blame the falloff on Converse’s inability to innovate and its overreliance on the Chuck Taylor model, Fortune’s Phil Wahba reports.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Scheibenbogen reports that the kids who cut out social media entirely showed modest increases in mental well-being that started wearing off five weeks later.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of reports
Noun
  • No discussion of nuclear deterrence should ever lose sight of the human lives behind those words.
    — Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Those 20 words--all but three of them single syllables--summon a flood of thoughts and images and memories and ruminations.
    — Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of words
Verb
  • Decapitated, the fairy of Smoking with Oneself (2021–26) puffs a cigarette from the gaping red maw of her throat.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026
  • An active Sun puffs up Earth’s atmosphere, creating higher drag for satellites in low-Earth orbit.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 19 June 2026
Definition of puffs

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“Blurbs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blurbs. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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