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entertainment

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


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It was the second time the company had done so in two years, as it expanded into live entertainment and podcasts.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

Pathways range across fields including engineering, information technology, agriculture, public policy and entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

The suit from the 12 state attorneys general, led by California, represents the most serious obstacle yet to Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison’s efforts to create an entertainment colossus.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

The bar was registered as a "restaurant with live music" rather than an "entertainment venue", Bangkok authorities have confirmed, and it was therefore not required to use fire-retardant materials.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Group singing played a major role in society, for emotional expression, entertainment, social cohesion, and so forth.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

Later a young brother and sister gave recitations, which everyone present had heard many times at winter evening entertainments in the city.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin




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