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[kon-tent] / ˈkɒn tɛnt /




NOUN
capacity, volume
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Open, where the number of credentialed content creators has doubled from last year.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

Not content with that, you’re spreading the word among your family.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

Promotional content posted by the White House on social media also included images that resemble trademarks and designs from Microsoft-owned Xbox.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

The local postmaster, a Jacksonian Democrat named Alfred Huger, was unnerved by what he considered inflammatory content and sequestered the abolitionist material, rather than comply with his legal obligation to deliver the mail.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

No one ever calls me that but you,” and Laurie sat down with an air of great content.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

One began to boil a kettle and emptied the contents into a bucket, along with a cap of bleach.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

The Times said its unclassified contents were confirmed by several lawyers who had seen it.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Will we receive the contents of her safe-deposit box when she dies?

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

I had finally finished culling my desk’s contents the day before, after a year of going through it drawer-by-drawer, a few minutes at a time.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

Eisman obtained a copy; its contents confirmed his worst suspicions.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Many fans have blamed her relationship with Kelce, suggesting that the couple’s contented monogamy means Swift has lost her edge as the queen of heartbreak songs.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

At Peacefield in Quincy, Mass., Adams spent his final hours contented with the knowledge that it was “the glorious Fourth of July.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Rather, that contented knowing seasons the confidence with which O’Hara shaped all of her women, whether mothers or, like Patty Leigh in “The Studio,” mother figures.

From Salon Feb. 4, 2026

The statement added: "We would like to thank all those who gave Pru such wonderful care at the end of her life: her last days were comfortable, contented and surrounded by love."

From BBC Oct. 28, 2025

Ojiugo gave Nne a loud kiss on her forehead and Obinze realized, watching her idly straighten a stray braid on Nne’s head, that Ojiugo was a wholly contented person.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Verstappen has reeled off four consecutive podium finishes and won three of the last four Austin races, only missing out last year when Ferrari claimed a one-two, contenting himself instead with a sprint race win.

From Barron's Oct. 16, 2025

By 2020, Zawahiri had become increasingly distant, contenting himself to write books and essays and only rarely appearing on video.

From Washington Post Aug. 1, 2022

He’s been playing it safe in Brooklyn, contenting himself with his Ma, his girlfriend and a modest managerial job at Starbucks.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2020

He ate “selectively and moderately at the Kremlin dinner” and “also stayed off the vodka contenting himself with some large gulps of red wine,” according to the note.

From The Guardian Jul. 17, 2019

Before contenting ourselves with Bernheim's formula, we must consider yet again what change we want to effect, and whether hypnotists have actually used any form of stimulus which was likely to effect it.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers




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