long-form

adjective

ˈlȯŋ-ˌfȯrm

variants or less commonly longform

: notably long in form in comparison to what is common or typical for works or content of a particular category

Making Michael Jackson's Thriller … spawned the long-form music video.—

Paul Taublieb

His compositions are long-form; by a comparative ratio to most piano players, there's not much soloing. Like good long-form structures, they don't always strike you as such; the written parts ease into solos without giving notice.—

Ben Ratliff

especially, journalism : covering a subject at much greater length and in much greater depth than a standard news article

Long-form and investigative stories were replaced by short, searchable bursts of information. —

Adam Weinstein

Mine was a world made new by memoir and biography, investigative journalism and longform essay. —

E. Ce Miller

Examples of long-form in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The result is long-form storytelling that is visually breathtaking, dynamically expressive, and — above all — more human. —

Lauren Huff, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2024 The result is long-form storytelling billed as visually breathtaking, dynamically expressive and more human. DC Studios’ James Gunn and Peter Safran, Swaybox Studios’ Andersson and 6th and Idaho’s Reeves are producers on Dynamic Duo. —

Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024 Runway, which can create videos and images based on prompts, does not produce long-form content yet and its videos are not meant to be used in TV shows or movies. —

Tim Baysinger, Axios, 23 Sep. 2024 Master The Art Of The Micro-Story Forget long-form content. —

Tim Madden, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for long-form

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