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narrowcasted

narrowcasted is the simple past and past participle of narrowcast.

Meaning of narrowcast

Verb

narrowcast (third-person singular simple present narrowcasts, present participle narrowcasting, simple past and past participle narrowcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) narrowcasted)

  1. To transmit a programme to selected individuals or groups, especially via cable.
  2. To send out a message or disseminate information to a specific narrow audience rather than the general public.
    • As much as Israeli media outlets and politicians are narrowcasting their ideologies every day, Israel’s emerging blended society is on full display every night on prime-time TV — an ultra-Orthodox female celebrity chef on one channel, an Israeli Druze female celebrity chef on another, an Israeli...2023 June 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Tel Aviv to Riyadh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  3. To transmit a medical intervention to a specific organ or type of tissue.
    • Cancer therapies can be narrowcasted to the unique genetic signature of a tumor instead of poisoning every dividing cell in the body.2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN

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Questions about narrowcasted

What is narrowcasted the simple past and past participle of?
Narrowcasted is the simple past and past participle of narrowcast.

Words near narrowcasted in the dictionary

  1. narrowboating
  2. narrowboats
  3. narrowbodies
  4. narrowbody
  5. narrowcast
  6. narrowcasted
  7. narrowcaster
  8. narrowcasters
  9. narrowcasting
  10. narrowcasts
  11. narrowed

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