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The Times highlights a call to "cut screen time in class 'for sake of pupil health'" which comes from leading clinicians.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
HomeView allows you to tap on the touch screen or bring your iPhone close by to “hand off” content, such as a FaceTime call or a recipe from the Safari browser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The company used the theater to host special events, screen classic films and showcase its own original theatrical movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The study, published in Acta Psychologica, suggests that understanding how people interact with their phones could be just as important as monitoring their daily screen time.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
My cell dings and a link pops up on the screen, just above the video of Grandma.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
They said he often showed his brokerage screens on livestreams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The real problem with smartphone use may not be how many hours people spend staring at their screens.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Passengers float around in automated chairs, surrounded by screens, food and entertainment.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Browning’s show was performed live while a camera crew shot different angles that were being projected on screens located on stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
In the afternoon, James and Dicey started patching up the holes in the porch screens, where the screens had pulled out of the wood or just ripped.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Can Denis Villeneuve’s third and final “Dune” movie, which hasn’t screened widely for press, take the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy path to a best picture victory?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Kenya has screened some 650,000 individuals for the deadly virus, trained nearly 5,000 health workers and set up isolation and care facilities around the country, Duale said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
In clinical settings, participants are screened, monitored and supported before, during and after treatment.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Evercore also screened for stocks with negative three-month earnings revision trends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
“Let me see,” he said, “fire screened, lights out. Leave the doors for Mrs. Dudley to close in the morning.”
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
Thorough screening and a good lease can reduce problems and help resolve disputes, but nothing is foolproof.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Belfast Health Trust operates a screening service for what it calls a "silent condition".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
This is the brilliant way writer-director Jesse Eisenberg thrusts us into his third — and best — feature, “The Debut,” screening at this year’s New York Film Festival and premiering in theaters December 11.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
He had completed bowel screening kits sent through the post for several years before one test came back positive.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
I was only there because Lucas Cader had convinced me that it was a sure way of seeing Ada Taylor, who was becoming increasingly skilled at avoiding me and screening my phone calls.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
