personal ad

noun

: a short message in a special section of a newspaper, magazine, etc., that is written by someone who is interested in forming a friendly or romantic relationship with someone else

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Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is making its latest push to Asian American voters, releasing a personal ad about her mother, Shyamala Gopalan. Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024 The first personal ad to appear in The New York Review of Books was published in the magazine’s July 11, 1968 issue. Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2024 For both purveyors and consumers of personal ad romance, the effectiveness of flirting in column inches has not yet been proved. Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 In a shift from the usual historical Facebook posts about the cemetery’s occupants, Tammen shared an online personal ad seeking Blossom’s next lifelong mate in February. Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023 Promising drug could provide alternative to statins, new study finds A cemetery posted a personal ad for a goose whose mate died. Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2023

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“Personal ad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/personal%20ad. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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