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For those who are watching the show for the plot, get ready to yeehaw about all the melodrama that’s about to hit your screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Thea Frodin once played a young Serena Williams on the big screen.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Suddenly, it was game on—and not the one playing on the bar’s big screen TV.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
That’s a real, tangible measure of success, available to watch live and in color on the big screen.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Some unfamiliar foods, probably from different tribal Nations, quickly appeared on his screen.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Spiegel has said he thinks smartglasses are better than phones, because they allow users to interact with the physical world and remain present rather than disappearing into personal screens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Grieving relatives gathered at identification centres to watch LED screens showing pictures of retrieved bodies, occasionally closing their eyes when the grim exercise overwhelmed them.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
She then makes them the same breakfast every morning, which they eat together with no screens, then it's upstairs for showers and getting ready for school.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
But screens are really seductive, so you start looking at that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The ten pizza-slice video screens scrolled constantly changing images associated with each category in the library cataloging system.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Soldiers screened people entering the presidency with metal detectors.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
The film grossed more than $9 million and Trump screened it approvingly at Mar-a-Lago.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
We screened the S&P 500 for stocks trading below their 10-year average forward price/sales valuations, and then for projected revenue growth from calendar 2026 through 2028, based on consensus estimates among analysts polled by FactSet.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
DSI has screened over 7,000 export shipments since June, the CEO said, analyzing roughly 100 outbound vessels daily to build oversight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Better yet, the flat roof of the next garden's oil tank was just a foot below me, and screened by coal-blue conifers.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
They do so in a quantitative way, screening for stocks whose rolling six-month, one-day percentage change is the inverse of the S&P 500 daily’s movements.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
A major security operation was nonetheless being maintained with soldiers screening people entering the presidency with metal detectors.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Taken together, the findings point toward possible new approaches for Alzheimer's screening and prevention.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Law schools could use their antitrust curricula as a secret screening device to steer cynics and chiselers who accidently get through the door toward alternative professions such as telemarketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
It took hours to clean that grimy theater, as there were several screening rooms, and we would generally finish around six in the morning.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
