infomercial
noun
in·fo·mer·cial
ˈin-(ˌ)fō-ˌmər-shəl 
-fə-
: a television program that is an extended advertisement often including a discussion or demonstration
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Besides movies, the tax credits applied to television commercials, documentaries, video games, infomercials, and music videos.
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2024
Feeling the weight of loneliness, Dog, a pudgy canine living in a kinetic and chaotic 1980s New York, purchases a robot friend from a late-night infomercial.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
Shopping has long been part of this experience (think: infomercials of the early 2000s or QVC-style shopping programs).
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2024
The show was framed as news, but sounded to me more like an hour-long infomercial.
—Lisa Shah, STAT, 28 Mar. 2024
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2024
Feeling the weight of loneliness, Dog, a pudgy canine living in a kinetic and chaotic 1980s New York, purchases a robot friend from a late-night infomercial.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
Shopping has long been part of this experience (think: infomercials of the early 2000s or QVC-style shopping programs).
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2024
The show was framed as news, but sounded to me more like an hour-long infomercial.
—Lisa Shah, STAT, 28 Mar. 2024
See all Example Sentences for infomercial
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“Infomercial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infomercial. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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