YouTube
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Investors have been weighing up user engagement - the amount of time customers spend on Netflix - as it competes with platforms such as YouTube and TikTok.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Recent livestreams, streamed multiple times a week on social-media platforms and YouTube, have stretched for longer than nine hours and involve call-in portions in which viewers opine or ask Shkreli investing questions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Oscars are headed to YouTube in 2029, as ABC passed on renewing its rights deal, ending a relationship that dates back to 1961, interrupted only by a five-year return to NBC in the 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
“We can all go all in on a YouTube strategy,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
If I can find my way to YouTube on the motel’s computer, then that means I’m on the internet.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
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
I stopped YouTubing full-time last year, because it impacted the viability of me making a full-time living.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2018
“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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