Advert and Suggest

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Advert verb - Make a more or less disguised reference to.

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Suggest and advert are semantically related In some cases you can use "Suggest" instead a verb "Advert".

Suggest verb - To convey an idea indirectly.

Usage example: this letter suggests that there's more going on than she's telling us

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Advert and suggest are semantically related in imply topic. Sometimes you can use "Advert" instead a verb "Suggest".

Similarly to the Nicotinell commercial above, a UK advert for Nicorettes (plastic cigarette-shaped nicotine dispensers to help you quit) showed the sort of classic movie characters who suggest Smoking Is Cool (vamp, grizzled cowboy, etc.) with Nicorettes instead.

Source: Stealth Cigarette Commercial
This has become such a Christmas cliché that in 2013 Radio 4's "You and Yours" ran a contest to suggest a song for the "Christmas advert treatment", receiving nearly 200 suggestions and going with Scissor Sisters "I Don't Feel Like Dancing".

Source: Softer And Slower Cover

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