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"Stories about corporate intrigue, money and power have found a home on TV. They lack the cinematic qualities that excite big screen audiences, like emotion, spectacle and fantasy," Gross said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
The woman sighed, tapped her screen with a fingernail and said, “It’s right there.”
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Alex Mahon says she's noticed an uptick in appreciation for in-person experiences like these - perhaps as a backlash to the amount of our lives now spent on a smartphone screen.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
I came in fourth out of four men aged 30-39—in other words, LAST—despite strong showings on the air bike and in an emotional-skills test where you gauge the expressions of faces on a screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
So I picked up my phone like I had important business with it, even though the screen was dark.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Passengers float around in automated chairs, surrounded by screens, food and entertainment.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
In effect, the surrounding electrons form a cloud that "screens," or cancels out, the magnetism of the atom.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 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
Giant screens display recreations of bunks in Nazi concentration camps and the entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The lights in the room dimmed and the screens simultaneously went black.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
In clinical settings, participants are screened, monitored and supported before, during and after treatment.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
They supported Selman Waksman, a Rutgers biochemist whose lab screened soil for antimicrobial substances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
If the data are screened for students from low-income families, most of the performance gap disappears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Evercore also screened for stocks with negative three-month earnings revision trends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
The opening in the tree wasn’t small, but it was screened on one side by a mess of brambles and on the other side by the second oak.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Ugandan officials said his temperature was normal when he passed through airport screening.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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
Tuesday's screening was attended by celebrities including Zach Cregger, Hannah Einbinder, Meg Stalter, Aziz Ansari and Hasan Piker, and during a discussion afterward the directors described their experience as "really sad and hard at times."
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
But aviation security and safety experts say advances in training and modern airliners’ technological safeguards can only do so much when screening for potential rogue pilots falls short.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The rotted screening from the back porch lay on the concrete terrace.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
