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screen

[skreen] / skrin /


NOUN
partition
Synonyms
NOUN
display, monitor
Synonyms






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Faded stars could scrape out a second act in B-movies and lesser studio offerings without losing the prestige of the silver screen.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Video game fans have been treated to a two-hit combo of big screen adaptations recently.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Here are the 10 companies that passed the screen, sorted by how much analysts expect the stocks to rise over the next year, based on consensus price targets:

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Abrams is well-cast in the role, not only because last month’s “Resident Evil” proved he can hold the screen pretty much by himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Ah,” said Charlie Parr through a screen of smoke.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Watch Duty notifications lit up residents’ screens: A fire had started on the other side of the mountains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Inside an underground bunker several miles away, a group of soldiers from Ukraine’s 72nd Brigade sat before a set of large screens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Bennett added: "If you see your face on social media or perhaps on one of our screens in our libraries, our leisure centres, you're going to think twice about wanting to fly tip again."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

I passed by auditoriums with heavily fractionalized pie-charts projected onto massive screens.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

All the window screens blink, and my grandmother, the president, appears on them.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Games taking place between 14:45 and 17:15 on a Saturday are not usually screened live in the UK, a decades-old policy designed to protect crowds at lower league matches.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The hallway to the bathrooms was lined with the movie posters that CAP has screened as part of their free film series, Reel Progress.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

There’s also an attached walk-in pantry, with a powder room, laundry facilities, an office area, a screened porch, and a sizable garage nearby.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Kenya has screened some 650,000 individuals for the deadly virus, trained nearly 5,000 health workers and set up isolation and care facilities around the country, Duale said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The house was faded white clapboard, two stories high, and had a screened porch all along the front that ran around the sides.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

I ended up on Nickelodeon because David Israel and Jim O’Doherty went to a screening of a movie that I made with Donal Logue called, “Tennis, Anyone...?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

"These patterns suggest that while similar risk factors across ages are likely, some cancers may have age-specific exposures, susceptibilities, or differences in screening and detection practices," write the researchers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

During a screening of his 1985 documentary, “The Making of Sun City,” at Springsteen’s Center for American Music in Long Branch, N.J., sources shared that the star was heard discussing his upcoming endeavors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Some employers are adding new AI-powered screening tools, while others are including cheating-detection software during the hiring process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The rotted screening from the back porch lay on the concrete terrace.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy


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