screening
Americannoun
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the act or work of a person who screens, as in ascertaining the character and competence of applicants, employees, etc.
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the showing of a motion picture.
There will be screenings at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
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(used with a singular or plural verb) screenings,
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undesirable material that has been separated from usable material by means of a screen or sieve.
screenings of imperfect grain.
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extremely fine coal.
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the meshed material used in screens for windows and doors.
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Even as more than $60 million was poured into construction that began May 20, with the Secret Service screening between 700 and 900 staff per day.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026
To start, heart-risk screening is going to happen in some surprising places in the future.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026
Using a cell-based screening system designed to identify regulators of replication stress responses, the team identified a small molecule called UNI418.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
And if we put screening, people will be identified as suspect cases, and we will have to send them away to the isolation that’s hundreds of kilometers away,’ ” Newport said.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
“I mean, we get all the movies that go to theaters. We have a screening room, and we...just pay for them or whatever. I actually don’t know how it works.”
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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