posters

noun

plural of poster
as in billboards
a sheet bearing an announcement for posting in a public place we put up a hundred posters announcing the concert

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Recent Examples of posters The Department of Homeland Security and ICE, the immigration and customs agency, have borrowed from video games in their recruitment posters and social-media campaigns. — Susan Page, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 In the Dash film and across the Prada show, Cao boldly addresses a critical quandary (one that is underlined by her pairing of romantic and pastoral imagery with posters that once promoted Mao- and Reform-era agricultural mechanization initiatives). — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026 Baseball season had started again, and the anti-ICE posters plastering downtown now incorporated the Twins logo. — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 New York streets were plastered with posters calling for a boycott of the gala, castigating the couple over their conspicuous displays of wealth and accusing them of attempting to buy their way into fashion’s high society. — Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026 Families covered hospital walls with posters showing missing relatives, photographs and contact numbers in a desperate appeal for any clue that could bring them home. — Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2026 Dolly Parton’s image appeared on cake mix boxes, film posters, magazine covers, and paintings. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026 College move-in used to mean twin XL sheets, a shower caddy, and maybe a few posters taped to a cinder-block wall. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026 Along the route, some members of the West Ridge Community Alliance held posters calling for immigrant support and an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrols. — Evgenia Anastasakos, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for posters
  1. billboards
  2. signs
  3. flyers
  4. placards
Noun
  • Screens have invaded our taxis, our billboards, our children’s toys, our very refrigerators.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Building affordable housing at scale means politicians need to break up with wealthy special interests like the construction accident lawyers who plaster the city and MTA buses with billboards and ads.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of billboards
Noun
  • The Habitable Worlds Observatory would be the first designed to photograph Earth-like planets — and even search for chemical signs of life within the atmospheres of those planets.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
  • There are signs that Democratic voters, especially, are looking for change, and some young voters argue older politicians can’t truly understand a world transformed by artificial intelligence, rising housing costs and student debt.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of signs
Noun
  • But their flyers, and the magnet program as a whole, is still a work in progress.
    — Austin Horn August 29, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Our expert take The JetBlue Premier Card is perfect for frequent JetBlue flyers who want to take advantage of their growing number of airport lounges.
    — Jason Stauffer,Brett Holzhauer, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of flyers
Noun
  • Meter-exempt placards allow people to park in handicap spaces in parking lots, and also exempt their holders from parking meter fees and time limitations, unless parking is limited to 30 minutes or less.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Some protesters march in Spider-Man masks and Batman costumes, carrying tongue-in-cheek placards.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026
Definition of placards

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“Posters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posters. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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