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plural blurbs
A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes. examples
third-person singular simple present blurbs, present participle blurbing, simple past and past participle blurbed
(transitive) To write or quote in a blurb. quotations examples
When Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald blogged about having seen and loved “The Departed” in Toronto in a supposedly private screening last fall, Warner Brothers “scolded me very strongly,” he said, “but they still blurbed a line from my blog in their opening ad.”
2007 July 4, David M. Halbfinger, “Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review”, in New York Times
(transitive) To supply with a blurb. quotations examples
Edward R. Murrow and other leading radio personalities blurbed the book, published in 1950 by Oxford University Press, and Siepmann thanked Paul Lazarsfeld and Herta Herzog in his acknowledgments.
2015, Peter Simonson, David W. Park, The International History of Communication Study, page 268