Touted as
X touted as Y (verb) -
a. X is being promoted as Y
b. trying to convince people that X is a good Y
c. trying to sell X as Y
touted as having
touted as triumphs
touted as an eventual successor to
frequently touted as Y
frequently touted as one of the best Y
was once touted as Y
widely touted as X
touted as the definitive account of Y
has always been touted as X
has been touted as a potential answer to Y
is being touted as the fastest Z around
has been touted as potential X
has been touted as a potential answer to X
is being touted as a signpost for Y
touted as the most ambitious Z of its kind
touted as a last resort measure for Z
Example sentences:
* "The Rocky mountains are touted as having guaranteed snow."
* "Many startup businesses can be touted as triumphs by our investment bank."
* Gallium arsenide is often touted as an eventual successor to silicon in the microchip industry.
* "Though frequently touted as one of America's best managers, Jack Welch bristles at the word manager."
* "Mr Arkady Volsky was once touted as a potential Prime Minister under Mikhail Gorbachev."
* "The introduction of newly-developed linings that can be pushed down into crumbling sewers to extend their life is widely touted as bringing the cost of renovating the nation's sewers down somewhere nearer to what impoverished water authorities can afford."
* "Much touted as the definitive account of the black ghetto, the movie A Rage in Harlem has an impressive cast list and an intriguing story but stops well short of expectations."
* "Videoconferencing has always been touted as a major use for ISDN."
* "The book is a documentation of the nameless and forgotten twentysomething generation, and is being touted as a signpost for the decade."
* "Plans to swap 10% or so of its shares with Germany's Dresdner Bank, touted as the most ambitious cross-border linkage of its kind, have been awaiting approval from the European Community for four years."
* "A mid-range RS/6000 which is expected to follow Vulcan in April 1993 is being touted as Trailblazer."
* "Technical membership, which carries a vote in the technology working groups, is touted as the most likely vehicle for X/Open to admit other industry groups and consortia."
* "Personal computer manufacturers like Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp have been touted as potential OEM customers for NeXTStep 486 since details first emerged, but Jobs has nothing in writing yet."
* "The line is touted as the first step in an aggressive effort to redesign the entire spectrum of Unisys desktop, workstation and entry-level server platforms and to accelerate its engineering, design, manufacturing and time-to-market."
* "This machine is being touted as the fastest supercomputer in the UK and is valued at over two million pounds."
* "At first this treatment was touted as a last resort measure for women with blocked tubes but is now being promoted for another group of women, those who can become pregnant but who are carriers of inheritable conditions such as haemophilia, and who may give birth to a child with the condition."
* "Commercial growing of trees has been touted as a potential answer to the cutting down of the rainforests, but the pressure group says it could lead to monocultures with little ecological diversity."
