In a sentence
Six example sentences with medium, each labelled with its topic.
For thirty years film was her only medium, and she resisted digital until the last laboratory in town closed.
Photography
Magnetic tape remained the cheapest medium for archives long after every office had switched to spinning disks.
Technology
The gallery treats a printed newsletter as its main medium, mailing four pages of essays to eight hundred subscribers.
Art
Vinyl was the medium that carried popular music for decades, and its grooves still hold sound no laser has touched.
Music
Clay tablets served as the medium for Sumerian accounts, and a fire that destroyed a palace often baked its records hard.
History
Researchers have stored a film and an operating system in DNA, a medium that could outlast every hard drive ever built.
Science
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Found in 9 published word lists
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)Authoritative
- Business English Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- Medical Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
Each source is a published word list that contains medium. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.