small screen

noun

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Amazon is also prototyping AI smart glasses that will guide its delivery drivers on the road, embedding a small screen in their field of vision [Yahoo Finance, 2025]. Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025 His small screen credits also include HBO’s Empire Falls and TNT’s Riders of the Purple Sage. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025 Spin Master, which makes popular toy brands like Paw Patrol and Bakugan that have had successful big and small screen adaptations, has digital game brands like Toca Boca and PikNik, which together draw 58 million digital players worldwide. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025 Fresh off her Tony win for Broadway’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sarah Snook is returning to small screen in All Her Fault. Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 14 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for small screen

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First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of small screen was in 1944

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“Small screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/small%20screen. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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