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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
Ellise Shafer, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
The film focuses on artists, which won’t surprise the fans of the creative who is also a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 10 Jan. 2026
The night of many stars was the festival’s gala that recognizes artists for their contributions to film.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Nov. 2025
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Noun
The Chinese film was produced by Xu and actor-filmmaker Da Peng at Fengduan Film.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
The film focuses on artists, which won’t surprise the fans of the creative who is also a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
Verb
The show is known to film close to its air date in order to capture real-time drama in the villa.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 10 Jan. 2026
The night of many stars was the festival’s gala that recognizes artists for their contributions to film.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for film
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Other features include a Game mode, which reduces latency so that the audio of games or movies are always synchronized with the video.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The grueling K-pop machine Ironically, the movie that made Ejae a star is an ode to the Korean pop music machine that disillusioned her all those years ago.—
Allison Cho,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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Both of these sections suffer from flat filmmaking that relies on drama that’s largely told, rather than felt.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2026
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That said, international filmmaking is in feeble shape, partly because of the jambalaya of international co-productions, partly because of the inroads of television aesthetics, and partly because of the cloistered aestheticism of self-conscious art-house cinema.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
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After the attack, he was videotaped sitting cross-legged on the sidewalk, covered in blood and holding the golf club in one hand.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Immigrant rights groups criticized his administration when armed Border Patrol officers on horseback were videotaped chasing Haitian migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border.—
Kevin Johnson,
The Conversation,
25 July 2025
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And a handful went ahead with a private VIP screening of the First Lady’s documentary at the White House.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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In addition, Free Solo — the 2018 Oscar-winning documentary featuring Honnold’s 3,000-foot free solo climb of the El Capitan summit in the Yosemite National Park in California — is streaming on Netflix and Disney+.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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In Naples, Lobotka became a regista, the Italian term for a ‘six’ borrowed from cinema.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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To this administration, mass deportation was the stuff of cinema.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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Brain imaging studies show that during prolonged mental work, the networks responsible for attention and decision-making begin to slow down, while regions that promote rest and reward-seeking take over.—
Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse,
The Conversation,
23 Jan. 2026
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Since then, the Helix Nebula has been imaged by a vast array of telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope, with the JWST joining the fray with an infrared image courtesy of its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam).—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Film.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/film. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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