preview
Americannoun
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an earlier or previous view.
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an advance showing of a motion picture, play, etc., before its public opening.
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an advance showing of brief scenes in a motion picture, television show, etc., for purposes of advertisement.
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anything that gives an advance idea or impression of something to come.
verb (used with object)
noun
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an advance or preliminary view or sight
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an advance showing before public presentation of a film, art exhibition, etc, usually before an invited audience of celebrities and journalists
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a public performance of a play before the official first night
verb
Other Word Forms
- unpreviewed adjective
Etymology
Origin of preview
First recorded in 1600–10; 1920–25 preview for def. 2; pre- + view
Example Sentences
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Engravings of the Arctic from his upcoming book were previewed in the news media, increasing its soaring advance sales.
From Literature
But now a preview of how that might happen is coming to football fields across America sooner than you think—along with a slew of other radical changes.
Cowork, released in research preview in January, lets users build AI agents that understand company context and can connect into a host of downstream enterprise apps like Slack, through Anthropic’s model context protocol.
On Monday, he previewed what he hopes to accomplish with the address.
From BBC
Anthropic is releasing the tool as a limited research preview for Claude enterprise and group customers, the company announced in a blog post Friday, fueling fears that the cybersecurity industry may get upended.
From Barron's
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