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entertainment

[en-ter-tayn-muhnt] / ˌɛn tərˈteɪn mənt /


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Ryan had previously claimed in a BBC TV documentary interview with Louis Theroux that there was a "predator" in the entertainment industry.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Qatar and Saudi Arabia aim to use aviation to position themselves as centers for global business in tourism, entertainment, technology and finance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Raman, who was the first DSA-affiliated Los Angeles city council member, will now helm the entertainment capital as it prepares to host the 2028 Olympics.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

They expect many residents will be from the technology and entertainment industries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Music, is of course, more than entertainment, and affects the body directly through its sound vibrations.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Today, dragons and dungeon crawls are common entertainments.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

Meghan Kobza’s “The Masquerade” unmasks the festivities of 18th-century London, where the commercial “middling sort” acquired the numbers and money to emulate the private entertainments of kings and aristocrats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

"Christmas football was originally rooted in a wider tradition of communal entertainments," Professor Martin Johnes of Swansea University told BBC Sport.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

Here’s a look at three indie-rooted filmmakers who scaled up their storytelling talents this year on behalf of spectacle-level entertainments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

Ballets and Broadway musicals and entertainments of that sort will flourish everywhere and will probably make the common folk happier than did the grim, hostile, fascistic pronouncements of their former leaders.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole


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