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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
Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2026
Such a fun moment, and a way to bring these films back and celebrate them.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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
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Noun
The number of films being produced for theatrical exhibition is slowly returning to pre-2019 levels.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2026
Such a fun moment, and a way to bring these films back and celebrate them.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
Fallout season 3 has already been renewed and should film this summer, hopefully for a late 2027 release.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for film
Noun
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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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By the time halftime begins and teams depart for their locker rooms, hundreds of members of the halftime crew have seven minutes to get in their places, set up every camera (about 14 to 17 cinema cameras plus two to five broadcast cameras) and connect about 3,500 feet of cable.—
Jayna Bardahl,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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This is a delicate, unexpectedly powerful slice of cinema literally unveiled, the filmmakers as liberated as the characters hope to one day be.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
3 Feb. 2026
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From 2013 to 2019, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) team repeatedly imaged a large section of Earth’s southern sky to collect the positions, colours and shapes of around 150 million galaxies.—
Nature magazine,
Scientific American,
31 Jan. 2026
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For example, astronomer Gianluca Masi, of the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy, imaged the breaking-apart comet in early November using a Celestron C14 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on a Paramount ME robotic mount.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Film.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/film. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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