slideshow
Americannoun
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a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
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a presentation of digital images, sometimes with text, viewed in progression on a screen.
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Ukraine's newly installed defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov waltzed on stage like a stand-up comedian to take the mic in front of journalists in Kyiv as a sleek slideshow zoomed across a map of the country.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
“Alter egos are nothing new,” reads a text-only slideshow posted to the team’s Instagram on Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026
Think of the souvenir dinner party as a direct descendant of the post-vacation slideshow party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
At one point during his first-term courtship of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, he proposed turning the barren country’s coastline into a string of hotels and resorts—and even presented a slideshow illustrating the possibilities.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025
My favorite memories with Autumn flip like a slideshow in my head, including spontaneous karaoke and hopscotch behind the public elementary school.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Goldin’s stories of the ’80s art scene are as priceless as the photographs and slideshows that pepper footage of her P.A.I.N. protests.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
Managers were ordered to stop spending weeks preparing elaborate slideshows for unproductive talkfests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
These were used to promote yet more investment opportunities - slideshows and card machines at the ready.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
“That’s what the class periods were. It was slideshows of ‘These are places that I’d stayed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2023
Among the slideshows of Hurricane Ian’s destruction across Florida—levelled city blocks, wrecked neighborhoods and flooded streets—a photo of flamingos in a sad huddle made the rounds late last week.
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2022
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