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television set

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television set (plural television sets)

A television; an electronic device that receives television signals, and displays the resulting images on a screen.

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. Adlai Stevenson II

So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set. Vanna White

A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty. Nhat Hanh

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary. Peter Sellers

The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature. J. G. Ballard

She knew Pota had a larger respect for personal privacy than he did for God, Congress, or the U. S. Constitution and never looked at anything there except, occasionally, for the remote control to the television set. Joseph Heller

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