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as in movie
a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track
watched a film on the Hopi Indians at the multicultural center
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as in filmmaking
the art or business of making a movie
learned about some of the special-effects techniques used in film
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as in to videotape
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Recent Examples of film
Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
The film played on over 900 screens domestically.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 June 2026
Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 1 May 2026
British literature of the Romantic, or modern, or contemporary periods; and then film or, finally, linguistics.
—Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 1 May 2026
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Noun
The film was co-written by and stars Lily Cowles and Euphoria’s Jeff Wahlberg, the nephew of Mark Wahlberg.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
The film played on over 900 screens domestically.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 June 2026
Verb
The actual crew that follows the contestants was the actual people who film it, but that episode kept getting punted.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 1 May 2026
British literature of the Romantic, or modern, or contemporary periods; and then film or, finally, linguistics.
—Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for film
Noun
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Plans call for a nine-screen movie theater spanning 40,000 square feet, restaurants and bars, retail shops, and a 773-space parking garage, which has already been completed.—
Brian Maass,
CBS News,
2 June 2026
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Lord’s video is shot from the back seat of a car cruising down Sunset, the camera tracking other street ads beyond the windshield, centering a lasso-wielding Marlboro Cowboy, a Star Wars movie billboard, and one for the box-office flop Perfect (1985), starring Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta.—
Jonathan Odden,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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For Washington, having a say in who directs — and in many other aspects of filmmaking that have more to do with what goes on behind the camera than in front of it — has made producing a priority.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
2 June 2026
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Anyone interested in the physical side of pre-CG large-scale filmmaking will be fascinated by close-up glimpses of movie magic, like the transformation of the Spanish landscape into snowbound Russia for Doctor Zhivago or the construction of an entire Irish coastal village for Ryan’s Daughter.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2026
Verb
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Ultimately four women would talk to Brown and agree to have their interviews videotaped by Michot.—
Tracy Grant,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
4 May 2026
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Police took Kogut to the District Attorney's Office where he was videotaped.—
Mary Murphy,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Recently featured in a documentary tour by filmmaker and YouTuber Kirsten Dirksen of Fair Companies, the site offers a rare look inside the underground world where missile crews stood ready around the clock to launch one of the most powerful nuclear weapons ever deployed by the United States.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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Steve and his wife, Natalie Shirilla, spoke up for their daughter in the recent Netflix documentary The Crash, which renewed national attention in the 2022 car crash that killed Russo and Flanagan.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 June 2026
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And their legion of fans, who’ve spent years consuming their content, are following them to the cinema.—
Marlow Stern,
Variety,
2 June 2026
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And the annals of cinema are filled with countless iconic examples, from Cary Grant in North by Northwest to Tom Cruise in Risky Business to Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in Men in Black.—
Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
2 June 2026
Verb
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For the first time in that field, imaging AI became available.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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Meyer imaged the Horsehead Nebula over several nights running through November 2025 to March 2026 using a Radian Raptor 61 mm telescope paired with an astronomy camera and accessories as Orion shone in the sky over Phoenix, Arizona.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
28 May 2026
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“Film.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/film. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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