teleprompter

Noun

Meaning

teleprompter (plural teleprompters)

a device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera

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I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection. Nicole Kidman

Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down. Chris Hayes

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine. Newt Gingrich

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that! David Herbert Donald

A Hamilton-themed teleprompter outside of the voting center held at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Source: Internet

"Answer hate with love; answer cruelty with kindness," he read off the teleprompter, as if he were sounding out a foreign language. Source: Internet

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