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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
Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
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
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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
In 1991, Hasty Pudding Theatricals awarded the annual honor to Diane Keaton for her contributions to film.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for film
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The movie also offers a bunch of original Charli XCX tunes, spawning a soundtrack much better than the singer’s own lackluster mockumentary.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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And yet, this is what a generation of moviegoers thrilled by the stylistic excess of A24 and Neon movies want from the big-screen experience.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 Feb. 2026
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His passion for the medium and its great artists illuminates this volume, which is shaped around a list of 100 Black films contextualized in a series of critical short essays by Clark, providing a lively and robust history of global Black filmmaking.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 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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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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Director Paul Thomas Anderson and composer Jonny Greenwood, his frequent collaborator, issued a statement today decrying the Melania documentary’s use of the score from their movie Phantom Thread.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
9 Feb. 2026
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Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson have demanded that music from the movie Phantom Thread be removed from the Melania documentary, saying it was licensed by Universal Pictures without their permission.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Feb. 2026
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Christened Celia, the whimsical carriage was inspired by a fictional muse from Luhrmann’s imagination but also pays homage to London’s 1930s West End theatre scene, vintage cinema, and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
10 Feb. 2026
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For Rick, the readings were largely to understand if this was the stuff of cinema or not.—
Margy Rochlin,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The Sun will not look like this nebula, nor like any of the preplanetary nebulae that have been discovered and imaged.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Feb. 2026
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Amino acids can come in two forms, left- or right-handed, referring to how their molecular structure can be mirror-imaged.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Film.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/film. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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