slideshow
Americannoun
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slideshows
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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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On YouTube, the very same platform hosting Duffy’s vapid post-vacation slideshow, content abounds showing soccer lovers’ appreciation for our fast-food joints, rowdy dance clubs and ranch dressing.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
We stayed for the slideshow: Peanut as a puppy, Peanut at the beach, Peanut gray-muzzled and dignified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
So when a slideshow of Kelly’s hairless visage appeared on the screen, Dokoupil fell bracingly silent.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2026
Afterward, Emma Jean entertained the girls with a slideshow from a trip she had recently taken to Paris and London.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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
These recent bits of Shein promotion, like many of the 700,000 or so videos and slideshows tagged #sheinhaul on Instagram, tend to adhere to a formula.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2023
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