teleprompter

noun tele·prompt·er \ ˈte-lə-ˌpräm(p)-tər \

|Updated on: 8 Jun 2018

Definition of teleprompter

: a device for displaying prepared text to a speaker or performer

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Recent Examples of teleprompter from the Web

Today, virtually every arena artist uses a teleprompter as a security blanket.

— jonathan takiff, Philly.com, "The mob ticket heist that may have produced an incredible Frank Sinatra show at the Spectrum," 3 May 2018
Palin spent her first week reading from a teleprompter and avoiding...

— Newsweek, "Analysis," 14 Mar. 2018
But neither of those men will be behind the teleprompter this week.

— erin mershon, STAT, "Trump often goes off script. What does that mean for his drug pricing speech?," 7 May 2018
The only technical/theatrical aids he’s needing are those still dazzling band charts, a serious sound system, and a low-slung teleprompter screen keeping song lyrics in his sights.

— jonathan takiff, Philly.com, "The mob ticket heist that may have produced an incredible Frank Sinatra show at the Spectrum," 3 May 2018
After every line of text, the mustachioed Bolton -- who was concluding his first week on the job -- would glance up at the President, who was adhering closely to the script scrolling before him in a teleprompter.

— kevin liptak, CNN, "Trump pushes ahead with Syria strikes amid broader tumult," 13 Apr. 2018
Bereft of teleprompters, the Martuni’s singers have either brought their own sheet music or are singing from memory.

— esther mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, "Show tunes and strong drinks at Martuni’s, one of San Francisco’s last piano bars," 8 Mar. 2018
Although polished and read with a teleprompter, the rhetoric, fear mongering, and falsehoods that Trump so often leans on when facts elude him was as prevalent as ever.

— sabrina eaton, cleveland.com, "Fox News' Tucker Carlson pulls the plug on Rep. Tim Ryan during televised immigration spat," 31 Jan. 2018
The time of year when President Racist von WallBuilder reads his prepared speech from a teleprompter, and a roomful of fat, rich white guys and affluent white women applaud as if the world were crafted from his tiny hands.

— stephen a. crockett jr., The Root, "A Lists of Protests by Congress Members Who Think the State of the Union Is Trash," 30 Jan. 2018

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