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screening

[skree-ning] / ˈskri nɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
hiding
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
in plain view obvious




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Any screening process triggered by the sanctions announcement could prompt these investors to sell bank stocks before the sanctions bind those funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Some people who eventually experience a heart attack do not appear to be at particularly high risk under conventional screening methods.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

The lower level contains an incredibly versatile room that’s currently used as a gym, but could also be well-suited to serve as a screening room, game room, or even an additional bedroom.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Click your remote control and you have an 11-foot-wide image on a white wall — a sort of private screening room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

HUD’s “One Strike Guide” calls on housing agencies to “take full advantage of their authority to use stringent screening and eviction procedures.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

But, he says, the modest 70-screen release on 30 October sparked favourable word-of-mouth reviews and with the demand for tickets going up, there was an increase in overall screenings too.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

She’d appear unannounced at art galleries and movie screenings just to show support for up-and-coming artists and filmmakers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Nigerian authorities have announced enhanced screenings for international airport arrivals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

At Chicago’s Music Box Theater, one of metropolitan America’s premier destinations for arthouse cinema, screenings sold out in a flash, accounting for the second largest share of the restoration’s opening-weekend box office.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

He banned screenings of the racist film The Birth of a Nation and trumpeted black heroes like the boxer Jack Johnson.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield


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