YouTube
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Thank you to those of you who trusted us to not spoil your mornings, coming to iPlayer or the BBC Football YouTube channel every day for our eight-minute highlight packages.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
There are a host of platforms and marketplaces now offering livestreams connecting sellers and customers, from Instagram Live, YouTube Shopping, to eBay and Amazon Live.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Trained entirely on a given pastor’s sermons and teaching, PastorGPT refreshes itself automatically each week by downloading and transcribing new sermon uploads from YouTube.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
And even now, Negrete is using his experience to fuel his dreams of playing professionally, revisiting the YouTube video of the experience again and again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
The day before her episode on me and Fig, I sat at my desk, the family laptop opened to her YouTube channel home page.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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He installed it on the curb outside, admitting he’d YouTubed the process for my make and model, just to be sure he had all the right parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2020
Before meeting on the first day of rehearsals, Blickenstaff and Hunton had Googled and YouTubed each other, so they had a sense of whom they would be harmonizing with.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2016
I YouTubed stuff, read a lot online, and figured out how to get the car running through trial and error.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2016
For the revolution is not only being televised, it’s being Facebooked, YouTubed, Instagrammed and tweeted, too.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 16, 2015
“I YouTubed him and saw a video and said, Wow, he’s great.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2015
Or does he go it alone as a YouTubing content creator, who plays only majors to keep competitive juices flowing?
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
He’s been playing since the 2005 Madden, but more crucially, YouTubing since the 2018 Madden.
From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2022
Instagramming and YouTubing parents expose their children in ways that regularly walk the line between creativity and exploitation—and get called out for it.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2021
Mayweather, of course, knows the Paul brand well, having fought Jake’s fellow YouTubing brother Logan in Miami in June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
“Just lie on that bed and calm down a bit. I won’t be nosy. I’m YouTubing anyway.”
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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