telethon

Example Sentences

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Viewers who have tuned into the conservative news channel Newsmax in recent weeks may think they are watching a telethon.

From Los Angeles Times

This megalopolis of division, stratification and segregation needs a unifying cause — something it hasn’t had since the 1987 telethon after the Los Angeles Central Library was ravaged in a fire.

From Los Angeles Times

Who knows whether Reed’s tirade worked like a telethon and enticed a major corporation to throw some money at Bethune-Cookman.

From Washington Post

“Will I take them? I don’t think so. I don’t know. It’s a long night. This is a telethon with no disease. Do you understand? We’re here all night, passing time.”

From Los Angeles Times

But these estimates include only deaths due directly to COVID-19, and do not take into account excess deaths because of delays in treating people with non-COVID-19 diseases, says Ewan Cameron, a modeller at the Telethon Kids Institute in Perth, Australia.

From Scientific American