small screen

noun

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Conveniently dovetailing into some of the notions offered this weekend to Trump at Mar-a-Lago by Oscar-winner Voight and his team, Newsom’s pitch of a national tax incentive for big screen and small screen production is clearly aimed to appeal to Trump’s bigger-is-better inclinations. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 May 2025 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) After making her small screen debut aged eight, a 14-year-old Knightley entered the big leagues in George Lucas’s sci-fi epic, as a dutiful handmaiden to the pale-faced queen (Natalie Portman), who serves as her steely decoy. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2025 Martin Scorsese, for instance, has spoken of getting a crucial part of his film education from watching movies on his family’s small screen. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025 Could one of the below be the next big or small screen adaptation? Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for small screen

Word History

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
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 22 May. 2025.

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