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YouTube

American  
[yoo-toob, -tyoob] / ˈyuˌtub, -ˌtyub /
Trademark.
  1. a brand name for a website on which users can post, view, or share videos.


verb (used with or without object)

YouTubed, YouTubing
  1. to post, view, or share (a video) on the YouTube website.

YouTube British  
/ ˈjuːˌtjuːb /

noun

  1. a website on which subscribers can post video files

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (tr) to post (a video file) on the YouTube website

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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One of the first projects she created was the YouTube series “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” in 2011.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

He has meanwhile launched another series on YouTube, "The Oldest View", which follows the exploration of an abandoned subterranean shopping mall.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

YouTube said its hate speech policy "outlines clear guidelines prohibiting content that promotes violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on certain attributes. We enforce this policy rigorously."

From BBC • May 28, 2026

“Ferrari doesn’t need to do this. This is controversial and extremely risky because of the degree of innovation,” Ive said in an interview posted Monday on YouTube with science and tech journalist Cleo Abram.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

So I go to watch YouTube videos of chess boxing—a hybrid fighting sport where you alternate between chess and a round of boxing.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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