teleprompter
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5.9
- noun
- /ˈtɛlɪˌprɒmptə/
- Specialized
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teleprompter
- The news anchor read the breaking story directly from the teleprompter without missing a beat.
- read the teleprompter
- a teleprompter for speeches
- use a teleprompter
Most people don't understand how the teleprompters work, and that's OK.
- Most people don't understand how the teleprompters work, and that's OK.
- And I didn't even need a teleprompter.
- He has no memory when he walks out to the teleprompter.
- And I think he has so much confidence because of one thing, the teleprompter.
- So like using a teleprompter and the specifics of how we were using it.
- And meanwhile, I'm back over at CNN, Wolf Blitzer still droning on from a teleprompter.
- Well, I have to tell you, I don't, I don't mean to blow up blow our cover here, but but there are teleprompters now.
- I don't read from a teleprompter, as you can probably tell, but being on a live TV show, it's so scripted.
- He goes, I'm not going to lie on the teleprompter, I can't read.
- So it's like ran through and they just played it like that teleprompter still.
- You walk up to the podium and you get there and you look and you're like, we're the teleprompters.
- It was just like the the combination of getting caught off guard and the teleprompter relying on that was like a recipe for disaster.
Examples
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I did all the video editing and programmed the teleprompter myself.
Fiction book (2001) -
You can hardly tell she's reading off a teleprompter.
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Listen, make sure the teleprompter guy gets that changed.
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So we were thinking, maybe, it just might be a great idea to have a teleprompter too.
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Now, listen, I lost the teleprompter.
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After inviting them to meet with him, the president read from a teleprompter and included the press.
Blog text (4) -
John went right into it, his eyes smoothly scanning the teleprompter script.
Fiction book (1992) -
As soon as they are programmed in my teleprompter, I will read them to you.
Blog text (3) -
It'll be on the teleprompter with the rest of the speech.
Fiction book (1993) -
The camera continues its dolly revealing the clear glass panel of the teleprompter.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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4.6
A screen that shows words for a presenter to read during a show
How Assisted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Teleprompter comes from the prefix tele- ('far', as in telephone or television) and prompter (one who 'prompts' or reminds a speaker). So a teleprompter is a device that 'reminds' a presenter by showing their script so they can speak smoothly while appearing to speak naturally.