binge-watch
verb
ˈbinj-ˌwäch 
-ˌwȯch
binge-watched; binge-watching; binge-watches
: to watch many or all episodes of (a TV series) in rapid succession
Even those of us who have bundled TV and broadband-Internet subscriptions from telephone or cable companies increasingly use them to binge-watch Netflix shows like Orange Is the New Black on an iPad … rather than flip through 500 channels to find nothing on.—
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—Stackcommerce Team (sponsored), PCMAG, 29 June 2024
My own personal binge-watching journey began in the early aughts, when my laptop and I would travel with a small binder of Simpsons DVDs.
—John Ortved, Vogue, 29 June 2024
Whether you’re curled up on the couch, reading your favorite book, or binge-watching your go-to series, this blanket is your essential companion.
—Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2024
For most travelers, a long flight means browsing the on-demand movie offerings, binge-watching Netflix on their phone, or just listening to a podcast.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024
Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and many other streamers have increasingly moved away from the binge-watch model toward a mixed-release system in which some series might drop all at once while others drop sequentially, and others a few episodes at a time.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 4 June 2024
Every second, the Internet transmits roughly one petabyte of data: the amount of data that an individual would have consumed after binge-watching movies nonstop for over three years.
—Amy Zegart, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
Reba was just re-released on Netflix—a prime opportunity to binge-watch the queen of country.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 May 2024
Adolescent obsession for the sitcom soon gave way to early-career intuition, when, as an 18-year-old intern decades before the binge-watching model, Capton thought to program a full season in a back-to-back, 24-episode bloc.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 May 2024
Stackcommerce Team (sponsored), PCMAG, 29 June 2024
My own personal binge-watching journey began in the early aughts, when my laptop and I would travel with a small binder of Simpsons DVDs.
—John Ortved, Vogue, 29 June 2024
Whether you’re curled up on the couch, reading your favorite book, or binge-watching your go-to series, this blanket is your essential companion.
—Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2024
For most travelers, a long flight means browsing the on-demand movie offerings, binge-watching Netflix on their phone, or just listening to a podcast.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024
Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and many other streamers have increasingly moved away from the binge-watch model toward a mixed-release system in which some series might drop all at once while others drop sequentially, and others a few episodes at a time.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 4 June 2024
Every second, the Internet transmits roughly one petabyte of data: the amount of data that an individual would have consumed after binge-watching movies nonstop for over three years.
—Amy Zegart, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
Reba was just re-released on Netflix—a prime opportunity to binge-watch the queen of country.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 May 2024
Adolescent obsession for the sitcom soon gave way to early-career intuition, when, as an 18-year-old intern decades before the binge-watching model, Capton thought to program a full season in a back-to-back, 24-episode bloc.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 May 2024
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“Binge-watch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/binge-watch. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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