as in movie
a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track
a popular novel that was made into a major motion picture
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Recent Examples of motion picture
The singer-dancer-actress (born Freda Josephine McDonald) blazed trails as the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 French silent film Siren of the Tropics.
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Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
They’re scanned for motion pictures, visual effects, and for video games.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 8 May 2026
Kozlowski will also work with the motion picture group’s president Erin Westerman to shepherd films from development through release.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 May 2026
Major motion pictures require literally thousands of specialists to make visions – fantastical, realistic, outlandish – come alive and be globally seen.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 2 May 2026
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Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
They’re scanned for motion pictures, visual effects, and for video games.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 8 May 2026
Kozlowski will also work with the motion picture group’s president Erin Westerman to shepherd films from development through release.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 May 2026
Major motion pictures require literally thousands of specialists to make visions – fantastical, realistic, outlandish – come alive and be globally seen.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 2 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motion picture
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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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Or take in a moving picture show at whatever cinema may still exist in your part of the world.—
Ed Silverman,
STAT,
15 May 2026
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No combination of stilettos and old-fashioned shoe-leather can temper the fact that integrity, talent, hard work, and a dedication to treating everything from fashion to the moving pictures with seriousness is in perpetual danger of extinction.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
29 Apr. 2026
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Here's what to know about the real-life case and how accurately the film depicts it.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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The prominence of beef in Texas has also created a subindustry that showcases and preserves it, which is reflected in film and broader cultural storytelling about the state.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
29 May 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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“Motion picture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motion%20picture. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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