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Polaroid

[poh-luh-roid] / ˈpoʊ ləˌrɔɪd /
NOUN
camera
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This show focuses on his photographs, taken with rapidly improving Polaroid technology, that document himself and his space and were often manipulated to create otherworldly images of his domestic life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

But it would’ve felt a touch unhinged to track down your old third-grade teacher two days later and slap a Polaroid of your crudités into her hand like, Look upon my vegetable glory!

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2025

One of her colleagues brought in a Polaroid camera.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2025

In 1974 Jack O’Connor was running O’Connor Studios, a school portrait company in Massachusetts, when a recent grad brought him a blurred Polaroid of his own ceremony and proposed a new model.

From Slate • May 27, 2025

She just pulled out an old Polaroid camera, which I wasn’t expecting.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds