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scene

[seen] / sin /


NOUN
part of a dramatic performance
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One of that show’s executive producers, Carol Mendelsohn, was the defining showrunner of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Appeared in the March 28, 2026, print edition as 'An Unsettling Sacred Scene'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Editor: Stephen Mirrione Scene: The montage in which Brad Pitt’s washed-up racer Sonny Hayes begins his winning streak through a momentum-building Grand Prix swing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026

As Jonathan Gould makes clear in “Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock,” downtown New York in the 1970s was well-equipped with all four.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

This blank Scene regarded, productive of no Intelligence, we marched onward.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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