newsreel

noun

news·​reel ˈnüz-ˌrēl How to pronounce newsreel (audio)
ˈnyüz-
: a short movie dealing with current events

Examples of newsreel in a Sentence

old newsreels from World War II
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Decades later, a trove of unseen and long-forgotten footage – as newsreels, public television broadcasts, propaganda films, and declassified documents – has been recovered from Paraguay and abroad, revealing the hidden mechanisms of power behind Stroessner’s rule. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025 Decades later, a trove of unseen and long forgotten footage—as newsreels, public television broadcasts, propaganda films, and declassified documents—has been recovered from Paraguay and abroad, revealing the hidden mechanisms of power behind Stroessner’s rule. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025 Bob Dylan was very well photographed; [there was] a lot of news conferences and newsreels in the early part of his career. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025 Footage of Nazis burning books written by Jews and books sympathetic to LGBTQIA+ community members morphs seamlessly from the black-and-white 1930s newsreel into color, revealing a burning taking place merely years ago in Tennessee. Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for newsreel

Word History

First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of newsreel was in 1914

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“Newsreel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsreel. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.

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newsreel

noun
news·​reel -ˌrēl How to pronounce newsreel (audio)
: a short motion picture dealing with current events

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