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content

[kon-tent] / ˈkΙ’n tΙ›nt /




NOUN
capacity, volume
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Last week, Netflix laid off about 1,000 employees and named former Disney executive Peter Rice as chief content officer, replacing longtime executive Bela Bajaria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Revamping content strategy is not enough to fix this challenge but it is a worthwhile start.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Valentine added that by "continuing the channel on BBC iPlayer, we can ensure Scottish content thrives in a digital environment".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

More recently, Braze has implemented artificial intelligence to help marketers optimize content, offers, channels and timing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Your content is great,” she said, laughing a little.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Not only can shipping labels and declared insurance values reveal their potential contents, “the simple name PSA or Collectors in the address box is the threat,” Rovell wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Dying cells that remain in tissues can eventually rupture and release their contents, contributing to chronic inflammation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026

After being allowed to return home, the pair saw the van doors had been "blown off" and their contents emptied, with water butts and oil drums strewn on the ground.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“The contents of this call are on background, attributable to a senior administration official.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The rest of us emptied the contents of the backpacks and lay on several rumpled layers of clothing.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe GarcΓ­a McCall

A genuinely contented polity would be indifferent to such criticism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

And it is not hard to find contented heat pump customers.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Ms. Maura plays Maria Ángeles, a contented widow who is a much-respected resident of the ethnically Spanish enclave in Tangier, Morocco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 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

“Mmm,” I tell her with a contented smile.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

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

Hutchinson, it is probable, saw the edition of "Champlain's Voyages" of 1632, contenting himself with a cursory examination of it.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake


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