shoppers

noun

plural of shopper
1
as in advertisements

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Relevance
2
as in buyers

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Recent Examples of shoppers The scanner also successfully collects shoppers’ emails, with current retailers experiencing up to a 55 percent email capture rate, allowing for enhanced customer service and email marketing opportunities after the shopper leaves the store. — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoppers
  1. advertisements
  2. buyers
  3. catalogs
  4. consumers
  5. browsers
  6. prospects
  7. users
Noun
  • Cardenas in Bakersfield, for example, said he has been inundated with Valadao campaign advertisements but knows little about Villegas.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Watch for unusual phone behavior An infected phone may show signs such as unexplained mobile data usage, excessive background activity, unexpected advertisements or apps appearing without your permission.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of advertisements
Noun
  • Trade-in buyers with negative equity financed $11,164 more than the typical new car buyer.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Definition of buyers
Noun
  • In March, Primary Wave—the independent publisher whose catalogs include Prince, Bob Marley, and Britney Spears—invested in the company; a Tokyo listing is in the works.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The stealth heated vest used to live in hunting shops and workwear catalogs.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of catalogs
Noun
  • The drugs are today available in more forms, such as a pill, and are also more affordable, leading more younger, lower-income and male consumers to use the drugs, according to the research.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Mark Gong opened his first flagship store in Shanghai’s IAMP Mall; Chinese designers are increasingly opening their own stores in order to better connect with local consumers.
    — Ashley Ogawa Clarke, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of consumers
Noun
  • Other agentic coding tools, such as Cursor and Codex from OpenAI, have also found success among programmers; AI browsers including ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet browser seek to give AI models the ability to take actions for the user on the internet.
    — Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Most browsers are now also underpinned by Chromium, a free and open-source web browser project, which was primarily developed and maintained by Google.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Definition of browsers
Noun
  • Baugh left Columbia as one of Georgia’s most intriguing young prospects.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Attacks by Palestinian terrorist groups throughout the 1990s deepened Israelis’ skepticism about the prospects of peace, which helped to bring Netanyahu to power in 1996.
    — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of prospects
Noun
  • BetMGM is offering new users a chance to place a bet and get $1,500 in bonuses if the bet loses when using promo code FOXNEWS.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Anthropic’s actions allow users to create derivative songs without paying the copyright holders, the lawsuit says.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of users

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“Shoppers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoppers. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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