YouTube
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Into the breach stepped Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, a Montreal technology entrepreneur and founder of Watch Mojo, a pop culture brand with 26 million subscribers on YouTube.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
When child services representatives express their shock that the teenage Gheorghiu children don’t have internet access at home, can’t go on YouTube, and — gasp! — don’t have smartphones, their surprise blunts Mungiu’s sharp point.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
On Thursday, Disney promoted former Google and YouTube executive Adam Smith to chairman of its streaming business, putting another Silicon Valley veteran in a senior position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The restrictions would not just affect well-known apps such as TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat but also YouTube and other video sharing platforms as well as AI chatbots and online games.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
I go to YouTube and get Hamilton going.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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
Their footage, chopped up and YouTubed and GIFed and John Olivered, would be injected into the infinitely subdividing capillaries of social-media outrage in near real time.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2018
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
Speaking to Fox Sports, Tyson said Paul - who rose to fame by posting videos online - has come "a long way from YouTubing".
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024
So if you have any time in the next week, do what I did and just spend time YouTubing clips of Norm and Conan, because it just doesn’t get better than that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2021
It was never overwhelmed by my legions of Chrome tabs, apps, and occasional Spotify, YouTubing, and Zoom calls overtop — no slowdowns or delays.
From The Verge ● Nov. 4, 2020
So I started Googling him and YouTubing him and just seeing all the things he did in the game and how he changed the game as a big-hitting, fast, athletic safety.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2017
“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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