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Recent Examples of drive-in
Built in the 1970s, West Wind is not only the last drive-in movie theater in the area — but one of the few left in California.
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Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025
The first drive-in theater opened in the United States in 1933, but the concept didn’t reach its heyday until mid century.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025
And my editor tells me there’s a nearby Dollar Tree that sells cheap snacks perfect for the drive-in theater.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025
Monte Irvin, also a future Hall of Famer, slugged two homers in Newark’s 24-0 win at Mitchell Field in Stamford, which later became a drive-in theater and is now an auto dealership.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
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Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025
The first drive-in theater opened in the United States in 1933, but the concept didn’t reach its heyday until mid century.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025
And my editor tells me there’s a nearby Dollar Tree that sells cheap snacks perfect for the drive-in theater.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025
Monte Irvin, also a future Hall of Famer, slugged two homers in Newark’s 24-0 win at Mitchell Field in Stamford, which later became a drive-in theater and is now an auto dealership.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drive-in
Noun
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Étoile doesn’t just make that argument, in guest appearances by artists who bridge high and low, like David Byrne, and shouting out the brilliant documentarian Frederick Wiseman in a scene set at the Manhattan cinema mecca Film Forum.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
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First as Jacques Demy’s Madonna figure in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), then in films by Truffaut, Polanski, and Buñuel, then during her stint in Hollywood and her later career as Andre Téchiné’s muse and inspiration to Millennial newcomers, Deneuve embodies a leftist French cinema ideal.—
Armond White,
National Review,
23 Apr. 2025
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The new playhouse would be managed and programmed by GableStage, an award-winning small company that now operates at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables and would be renamed GroveStage.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2025
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Somewhat counterintuitively, since the show plays into a lot of very old Irish storytelling stereotypes, the playhouse and director Danielle Paccione have cast performers who are all in their 20s or 30s.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Drive-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drive-in. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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