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subtitle

[suhb-tahyt-l] / ˈsʌbˌtaɪt l /






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As “The New Dark Ages” makes clear, there is a lot more at stake than the joy of reading in what the subtitle calls the “Dawn of the Post-Literate Society.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The interrobang of the subtitle is a mashup of the question mark and the exclamation point that a New York ad man tried to popularize in the 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Yet “Lifeguard,” true to its subtitle, pays as much attention to the magic of the beach as its dangers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Are these three subtitle terms — codependent, perfectionist, people-pleasing — interchangeable or interlinked?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Later, however, the subtitle, "Anarchy," was gradually reduced to smaller lettering and finally dropped.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy by Montrose Jonas Moses

Most Asian films weren’t available in English, so Lee bought VHS tapes and added subtitles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

The biggest gift of the streaming revolution is subtitles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

To watch this with subtitles go to BBC iPlayer and search for Morning Live from 02/07/2026.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

The film had subtitles and a complicated “eat the rich” subtext.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Unless they're for children, all movies are shown in their original English with French subtitles.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

It’s not accidental that one sequel is subtitled “The Rage.”

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

Any "video-on-demand" platform with more than 500,000 users will need to comply with rules overseen by UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom regarding "protections from harmful material" and increased availability of subtitled, signed and audio-described programming.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

The second disc, subtitled “Disc 39,” takes a broader view, looking at work and family from the perspective of someone who has learned a great deal and is ready to move on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

The combined service allows fans to view dubbed and subtitled content in one place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025

This was, in short, another memory game—that was why the Staff Picks display had been subtitled “Our Most Memorable Reads.”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

And in motivated readers, subtitling works in tandem with reading to enhance vocabulary and literacy.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2023

On a more fundamental level, many American viewers not accustomed to Asian series will be bemused by the stilted, nonidiomatic quality of much of the crowdsourced subtitling.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

For example, subtitling technology, which originally started out to help deaf and hard-of-hearing television viewers, had a positive impact on people in general, and has become useful for the masses.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2022

Additionally, casting Latino actors as Latino characters “goes hand-in-hand with my reasoning for not subtitling the Spanish,” Spielberg told IGN.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2021

When it comes to translating films and series, subtitling and dubbing are the most common forms of translation.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2021




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