Michael Leunig

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

Australian Cartoonist

Shweta Basu Prasad

Mars, the second planet from the sun in our solar system is touted to be the next home for human race in the coming decades if the research and understanding of the planet is cracked by the bigwigs of the science world.

Indian Actress

Mitchell Trubisky

Your life can change in one year. You can go from a nobody, not even getting any playing time on a college team, to being one of the most highly touted quarterbacks coming out of college for the draft.

American Athlete

Jim Goetz

I am looking for unknowns who are passionate and mission-based. But I don't try to tout the next great thing I want to get in front of, because I don't set that course. The entrepreneurs do that.

American Businessman

Jenna Morasca

For those few of you who never heard of 'The Secret,' it's a worldwide best selling book touting the benefits of positive and affirmative thinking, and sending good energy out into the world.

American Model

Judd Trump

From a very young age people have been touting me as a world champion. So it can be tough, playing in the spotlight and people expecting big things from you all the time.

English Entertainer

Robert De Niro

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

Actor

Sendhil Mullainathan

People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as some big solution.

American Economist

Amari Cooper

If you're a highly touted free agent, you're going to get paid a lot of money no matter where you go.

Laurence Fishburne

There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good.

American Actor

The verb 'tout' often appears in marketing or hype-driven scenarios.

Promotional Context

Using 'tout' implies a strongly positive message; often it's persuasive.

Positive Spin

'Tout' can subtly suggest exaggeration or overpromising.

Subtle Overstatement

A 'tout' often claims deep knowledge whether credible or not.

Assumed Expertise

In sports, touts have a connection to gambling and betting advice.

Betting Associations

'Tout' in sales tends to have a negative, pushy connotation.

Pushy Sales

Touts resell tickets at inflated prices, often against regulations.

Overpriced Resale

Touts are commonly encountered around high-demand events.

Event Context

 direct the sunshine onto a dark pot that then absorbs the sunshine and changes that light energy into heat energy and heat energy doesn't get out of the clear plastic bag it doesn't get out of the window solar cooking is also being touted as a sustainable way to purify

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 to the lumber camp. And that's where I was when the RCMP arrived by helicopter, because the police had blocked off all the roads. So they asked, what's in the airplane? I said, "Cocaine." He says, how much? I says, "A lot." It's being touted as the biggest

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 but of course it the the will of the people to actually listen to follow science mayor bowser we know that uh dr fauci and all the other experts infectious disease experts continue to tout mask wearing social distancing of course hand washing all of those

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 And our most precious resource, the planet, is dying, and we have no planet B. So we're not happy at work. And we're not productive. And oddly, in the time of the pandemic, when we're touting mental health and wellness and the importance of people,

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 it's small moments of attachment. In other words, intimacy. In our networked organizations, we tout the strength of weak ties but we underestimate the strength of strong ones. We forget the words of the writer Richard Bach who once said,

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 now and that's ready for clearing thank you now this is exactly the kind of appropriate technology that has been touted around the developing world by development agencies because it's simple to make yourself and it makes the most

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 How long does it take to get over a breakup? The good news is I've done the research for you. The bad news is that you might not like the answer. See, a few years back, a number of publications were touting a study

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 or to opt for particular food substitutes, like drinks, bars, or powders. The truth is shedding pounds in the long run simply doesn't have a quick-fix solution. Not all diet crazes tout weight loss.

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 There is this word that everybody is touting as the key to resilience. Well, what exactly is resilience, and how do you develop it?

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 Imagine that fonio is consumed all across the globe as other popular ancient grains. Fonio touted on the levels of cereals, breads,