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scene

[seen] / sin /


NOUN
part of a dramatic performance
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“Normally there’d be a current charting trap or rap song, but there’s something about that song that I think makes you recalibrate how you’re looking at the scene in general.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Shortly after that, she said, the models "were lined up in the hallway" for West's arrival, before the rapper "came through and chose three girls to be in the scene with him", including An.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

In one scene, a young person "wonders whether... that kind of love was possible only in the old times", he said.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Landing at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in early June felt like arriving into a scene from a different time, specifically the COVID-19 pandemic era.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

He was sprawled pathetically on the wooden sidewalk now, propping himself up on one elbow and seeming to reflect on the scene before him.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan




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