as in film
the art or business of making a movie
many a small-town girl has gone to Hollywood, dreaming of making it big in the movies
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Recent Examples of movies
This particular deal is for 4TB, giving you an incredibly amount of storage for your games, music, movies, and more.
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George Yang, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
When video streaming platforms were first launched, they were marketed as an affordable way to watch your favorite movies without the interruption of an ad break.
—Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
That film spent four weeks on Netflix’s global Top 10 movies list and reached the Top 10 in 92 countries, per Deadline.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
The franchise grew to 14 films released between 1997 and 2013, including five original Air Bud movies focusing on the basketball-playing dog and nine spin-off films centered around his pups.
—Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2026
Those movies were released in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
Special scenes were often written into movies just for him.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Friendly aliens aren’t a new phenomenon in movies, but usually, those friendships develop on our home turf of Earth.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026
And very early on, Walt was thinking beyond the screen – from movies, music, and television, to merchandise, publishing, and theme parks.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2026
George Yang, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
When video streaming platforms were first launched, they were marketed as an affordable way to watch your favorite movies without the interruption of an ad break.
—Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
That film spent four weeks on Netflix’s global Top 10 movies list and reached the Top 10 in 92 countries, per Deadline.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
The franchise grew to 14 films released between 1997 and 2013, including five original Air Bud movies focusing on the basketball-playing dog and nine spin-off films centered around his pups.
—Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2026
Those movies were released in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
Special scenes were often written into movies just for him.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Friendly aliens aren’t a new phenomenon in movies, but usually, those friendships develop on our home turf of Earth.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026
And very early on, Walt was thinking beyond the screen – from movies, music, and television, to merchandise, publishing, and theme parks.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for movies
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The film also showed an important difference between his approach and Farhadi’s.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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Salim will co-write and co-produce the film alongside Pearce and Charred Pictures.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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For many adults, the beauty book triggered memories of a pre-social-media childhood spent cutting pictures out of magazines and pasting them into notebooks.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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These are big walleyes, the kind sportsmen pose with for pictures in the local newspapers.—
Dave Duffey,
Outdoor Life,
26 Mar. 2026
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At the same time, independent filmmaking took off as low-budget, low-risk films, including Reservoir Dogs and Slacker, proved to have huge revenue upside.—
Maxwell Adler,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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Emma Penrose Penrose is a Director of Photography with a focus on narrative and analog experimental filmmaking.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2026
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The mother of two has repeatedly accused Samantha and their father, former Hollywood lighting director Thomas Markle, of selling stories to the British tabloids.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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The prolific Hollywood subgenre of the body-swap comedy had already been around a while when Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan teamed up for the surprise hit, Freaky Friday.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Movies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/movies. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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