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entertainment

[en-ter-teyn-muhnt] / ˌɛn tərˈteɪn mənt /


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The important benchmark comes as Comcast prepares to spin off NBCUniversal entertainment and news media businesses into a separate company.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Last week, Warner sued Amazon.com after the company’s entertainment division hired a senior HBO Max marketing executive who was still under contract.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

A group of 18 people who work in the entertainment industry, including actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natasha Lyonne, launched a coalition that aims to advocate for the rights of creators amid AI’s boom.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

But most U.S. consumer spending goes to services—everything from housing and medical care to entertainment and airline tickets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

The boys dove into the rowdy throng of the entertainment district.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Today, dragons and dungeon crawls are common entertainments.

From Salon Jun. 24, 2026

Meghan Kobza’s “The Masquerade” unmasks the festivities of 18th-century London, where the commercial “middling sort” acquired the numbers and money to emulate the private entertainments of kings and aristocrats.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

"Christmas football was originally rooted in a wider tradition of communal entertainments," Professor Martin Johnes of Swansea University told BBC Sport.

From BBC Dec. 24, 2025

The queen of all she surveys, she speaks in moony aphorisms, is posing for Vanity Fair and orchestrating a fundraising gala, among minor entertainments.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2025

In this way they meant to show the great open-air stadium in which the popular entertainments of Rome were held.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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