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screen

[skreen] / skrin /


NOUN
partition
Synonyms
NOUN
display, monitor
Synonyms






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"It feels like a huge honour," says Lynsey Rendall, who plays Francis's screen wife Maeve.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk watches a Greenland shark glide slowly through the dark waters of the Arctic on her computer screen.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

The center touch screen is now 16 inches, slightly larger than before, with a higher resolution QHD touch display.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

But reducing or omitting speech from a movie’s audio tracks forces viewers to give the screen their full attention, which Netflix and other streaming services assume is a lost cause in the second-screen era.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2026

Although his face was looking almost as pale as the version of himself on the screen, so he wasn’t a complete robot.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Green arrows representing tourist-laden jets pile up on the screens of the Athens air traffic controllers, a puzzle to solve at the height of tourist season.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

Davis urged residents to take steps to reduce their risk such as using DEET-containing insect repellent, eliminating sources of standing water and ensuring windows and doors have tight-fitting screens.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

American Airlines plans to install screens at every seat as part of a cabin overhaul aimed at catching up with more profitable rivals Delta and United.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

American Airlines spent much of the past decade phasing out seatback screens from its Boeing 737s and Airbus A320-family jets, arguing that most travellers preferred to stream entertainment on their own devices.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

He’d said it before, as Traveler, late last night with the safety of our screens between us.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

"It is sometimes hard to convince them to disembark and get screened," said Cecile Kisangu, a nurse.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

Her concert film, “A Night at the Symphony: Hollywood Bowl,” will be screened at select theaters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

I will be screened for a range of different conditions, including skin cancer, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, eye conditions like glaucoma, as well as kidney and blood disorders.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Bhasin says certain at-risk subsets of the population should be screened, such as people with chronic kidney disease on dialysis, men who have been treated with chemotherapy, or have chronic liver disease.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

This was the film he screened each year for his students at Cornell University Medical School.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

In my hometown, Seattle, our Paramount Theatre hosts Silent Movie Mondays quarterly, accompanying each screening with a live performance on the venue’s original Mighty Wurlitzer organ.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2026

At nearby tents, screening teams check passengers' temperatures and look for symptoms of the hemorrhagic fever.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

"Our study highlights the importance of taking part in colorectal cancer screening, and shows that it can actually save lives."

From Science Daily Aug. 21, 2026

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University have now tracked participants for up to 14 years to examine how screening may affect the risk of dying from the disease.

From Science Daily Aug. 21, 2026

“Send in the most innocuous person from Twelve they can come up with. Find someone Peeta might share childhood memories with, but nothing too close to you. They’re screening people now.”

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins




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