Examples of CD-ROM in a Sentence
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Their dad owned a series of small businesses, including some that produced CD-ROM and DVD movies and bought distribution rights to Polish films and sold them to Netflix.
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Jeff Kauflin, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Pecker points to online services and CD-ROMs, even, perhaps, the movies (Hachette underwrote the upcoming Isaac Mizrahi documentary, Unzipped, and Pecker was listed as an executive producer).
—Rebecca Mead, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2026
The instrumental snippets are accessed — in old-fashioned CD-ROM hover-and-click style — by clicking on band posters or photographs pictured as being taped or otherwise affixed to a wall in a bedroom with a guitar, stacks of CDs and some dirty clothes.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
Even the game itself was enormous—in an era where a single CD-ROM was already considered ludicrously large, WC3 sprawled ostentatiously across four of the 600MB-or-so discs.
—Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 3 Feb. 2026
That started with reviving the CD-ROM games that originated in the ’90s.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
Instead, developers reverse-engineered the game, including using CD-ROM hacking.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 12 June 2025
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Jeff Kauflin, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Pecker points to online services and CD-ROMs, even, perhaps, the movies (Hachette underwrote the upcoming Isaac Mizrahi documentary, Unzipped, and Pecker was listed as an executive producer).
—Rebecca Mead, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2026
The instrumental snippets are accessed — in old-fashioned CD-ROM hover-and-click style — by clicking on band posters or photographs pictured as being taped or otherwise affixed to a wall in a bedroom with a guitar, stacks of CDs and some dirty clothes.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
Even the game itself was enormous—in an era where a single CD-ROM was already considered ludicrously large, WC3 sprawled ostentatiously across four of the 600MB-or-so discs.
—Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 3 Feb. 2026
That started with reviving the CD-ROM games that originated in the ’90s.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
Instead, developers reverse-engineered the game, including using CD-ROM hacking.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 12 June 2025
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“CD-ROM.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CD-ROM. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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