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media

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"News outlets"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈmiː.di.ə/Sorted adeimStarts with MEnds with A1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Means of communication

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.

Used in a sentence

  • The media have differed in their approaches to coverage of the scandal.
  • As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media has declined in popularity.
  • Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.

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