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content

[kon-tent] / ˈkΙ’n tΙ›nt /




NOUN
capacity, volume
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Goodlad is also hiring a communications assistant to translate content into the Shetland language.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

"We recognise that the response became part of a conversation. We felt doing nothing wasn't the right thing to do because of the harmful content."

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Lim, a travel content creator, has spent decades accumulating the kits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

"It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion, and, from what we've seen, audiences aren't interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience," they wrote.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

His face isn’t shifty or clever or content.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins

Photos show the car lodged inside the home with a first-floor room and its contents – including boxes of books and bedding – having collapsed on to its roof.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the contents of the alleged messages as extremely serious and unacceptable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

At first, the relationship was mostly the source of mockery that someone of the his stature apparently needs a full-time ego masseuse who often totes around enormous bags, which have generated speculation about their contents.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The contents do not represent the views of the US Department of Veterans Affairs or the US Government.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

The rest of us emptied the contents of the backpacks and lay on several rumpled layers of clothing.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe GarcΓ­a McCall

A genuinely contented polity would be indifferent to such criticism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Sturgeon also said she was "contented" and "at peace" with her decision to quit politics.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

Rather, that contented knowing seasons the confidence with which O’Hara shaped all of her women, whether mothers or, like Patty Leigh in “The Studio,” mother figures.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026

“Wi$h Li$t,” a wistful song that hits like a contented sigh, imagines a simple life of domesticity in a suburban house with a basketball hoop, children and peace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

By the time she’d finished in Moody’s room the can was empty, so she contented herself with setting it outside the closed door of her parents’ bedroom.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Verstappen has reeled off four consecutive podium finishes and won three of the last four Austin races, only missing out last year when Ferrari claimed a one-two, contenting himself instead with a sprint race win.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025

By 2020, Zawahiri had become increasingly distant, contenting himself to write books and essays and only rarely appearing on video.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2022

He’s been playing it safe in Brooklyn, contenting himself with his Ma, his girlfriend and a modest managerial job at Starbucks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2020

Seattle started the year with expectations of contenting in the AL West and reaching the postseason, but instead finished in fourth place in the division.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2015

Our poverty, our sufferings, justify us in the eyes of sensible people; for which reason our condition has become dear to us: by contenting yourself with it, you can justify yourself also.

From Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel Williams




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