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Recent Examples of drive-in
The diner comes with Supercharger stations, two drive-in movie screens, and indoor and outdoor seating for up to 250 people.
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Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
Salinger: There was no improvisation, but in the drive-in scene at the end, where Pee-wee tries to imitate French with me and Pierre?
—Simon Bland, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
But that was Lionel who loved the drive-in; John doesn’t care.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 31 July 2025
Electric cars aside, being there felt like stepping back in time to one of the drive-ins that permeated Southern California in the 1950s and ’60s.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 31 July 2025
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Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
Salinger: There was no improvisation, but in the drive-in scene at the end, where Pee-wee tries to imitate French with me and Pierre?
—Simon Bland, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
But that was Lionel who loved the drive-in; John doesn’t care.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 31 July 2025
Electric cars aside, being there felt like stepping back in time to one of the drive-ins that permeated Southern California in the 1950s and ’60s.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drive-in
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These are all part of the Golden Princess film library, a 156-title catalogue of movies made from 1979 to 1995 that represent some of the most important works of the golden age of Hong Kong action cinema.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
20 Aug. 2025
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One of the last bastions of radical cinema was the independent Art Theatre Guild, which produced and distributed two films in 1970 that captured Japan’s own retreat from possible change toward aesthetic and political conservatism.—
Jake Cole,
IndieWire,
18 Aug. 2025
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On July 28 at 6:30 p.m., the playhouse is actually showing the 1952 movie, which stars Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor, and is fully expecting the screening to go as planned.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
26 July 2025
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There’s also the question of finding a playhouse that can fit in Miriam Buether’s set, which has been designed for the Lyttelton’s wide proscenium.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
23 July 2025
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“Drive-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drive-in. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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