talkie

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Noun
  • The film, the last in Stroheim’s history-making ten-year run of silents, has become one of cinema’s most famous unfinished works, seen—when seen at all—in rival incomplete versions.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
  • But Team Cherry was radio silent.
    Keller Gordon, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The car, however, has a feature that automatically turns off the engine after one hour of idling.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Zuckerberg is expected to face questions about what Meta has known about the risks of its platforms for young users, and whether those safety features were sufficient to mitigate them.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Why despite being a Sundance hit, Courtney Love is reshooting her documentary.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The premise comes with two prime marks built-in — gambling in professional sports and puff-piece documentary profiles — plus the genre offers its own satiric opportunities.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Bian’s big short comes with significant risk, and he has been forced to liquidate some positions at a loss in a volatile silver market.
    Alfred Cang, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • There’s no way of knowing this frigid February how all these players and coaches will work out, but to get this much done in this short a time certainly shows high-level energy, high-level organization, unfathomable relentlessness.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But the characters are expressive, and the medium is used to unreal ends, which is, after all, what cartoons are good for.
    Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Even the Dodgers, the cartoon villains of spending, kind of sort of have a limit.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In one moment, Robbie wore a look that puts a spotlight on an emerging designer, Dilara Findikoglu, who created a dress braided with synthetic hair, for the film’s London premiere.
    Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Gavras is know for directing films like Netflix's French feature Athena and last year's English language action adventure comedy Sacrifice.
    Meg Walters, InStyle, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The film is easiest to categorize as a docudrama, though its inventive form, blending real-life audio with dramatized dialogue, doesn’t fit neatly into any one genre (this singular, hybrid approach of Ben Hania’s will be familiar to anyone who has watched Four Daughters).
    Olivia Marks, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The actress and filmmaker directed the final episode of his new Fox Nation docudrama series, The Saints.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Olivia Rodrigo went vintage for Halloween this year, opting to dress up as the iconic animated cartoon character, Betty Boop.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2022
  • To the narcissist, all other people are cardboard cutouts, two-dimensional animated cartoon characters, or symbols.
    Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 14 June 2022
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“Talkie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talkie. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.

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