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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Narration or dialogue, as in a movie, commercial, or documentary, spoken by an unseen narrator or an onscreen character not seen speaking.
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- noun A
TV broadcast etc., in whichpictures areaccompanied by thevoice of anunseen actor orreporter . - noun The
audio track of such a broadcast.
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Examples
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"The former prime minister was brought to the Khamovnichesky court about half-an-hour ago" says the voice-over, which is based on state television coverage of the second Khodorkovsky trial.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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"The former prime minister was brought to the Khamovnichesky court about half-an-hour ago" says the voice-over, which is based on state television coverage of the second Khodorkovsky trial.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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And try as I might, I couldn't "hear" Edward Everett Horton doing a voice-over for any of these sequences. randee
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The 30-second ad, which will also run on the CNN airport network and on the A&E and Syfy networks, shows archival footage of Kennedy's Dallas motorcade, with a voice-over that says, "What if instead of justwatching history, you could change it?"
Stephen King's New Monster Alexandra Alter 2011
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Perdue provided a voice-over in the video and said, “We never knew we were poor.”
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It features some familiar school architecture, combined with classic Ivan Illich passages read in voice-over by a Japanese schoolgirl.
Neurartic: School's Out for the Summer The Nag 2009
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The voice-over tag line: Our greatest generation denied care.
FRC spot looks to tie public option to abortion funding 2009
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Another director might have wanted to demonstrate more explicitly through music, a caption or a voice-over the idea of the Good Shepherd who does not leave his flock, which the monks discuss at one point during their deliberations on whether or not to "stay."
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Best Movie On Faith I Have Ever Seen S.J. Rev. James Martin 2011
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A voice-over says, "every time you clean with the leading spray mop, it costs you."
Going Mop Head to Mop Head on the Floor Anne Marie Chaker 2012
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Another director might have wanted to demonstrate more explicitly through music, a caption or a voice-over the idea of the Good Shepherd who does not leave his flock, which the monks discuss at one point during their deliberations on whether or not to "stay."
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Best Movie On Faith I Have Ever Seen S.J. Rev. James Martin 2011
gangerh commented on the word voice-over
Recording of dialog to be used on a production's soundtrack where the speaker is not being shown.
July 31, 2008