special effects
plural noun
: visual or sound effects introduced into a movie, video recording, or taped television production
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Film, with its arsenal of special effects, makes a more natural medium for such a book’s translation, and Ang Lee has already made a popular movie version of it.
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Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
Calm precision and clear intentions reverberate with mysteries; simple but jolting special effects convey the ambient hauntings of the physical world.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2023
Movie production also brings business to UK travel and equipment firms as well as special effects studios.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
The big-and-tall monster, meanwhile, whose body has been entirely covered in fungus, is a triumph of design and special effects, even as the episode cleverly has Kathleen instead die at the hands of the little girl.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2023
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Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
Calm precision and clear intentions reverberate with mysteries; simple but jolting special effects convey the ambient hauntings of the physical world.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2023
Movie production also brings business to UK travel and equipment firms as well as special effects studios.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
The big-and-tall monster, meanwhile, whose body has been entirely covered in fungus, is a triumph of design and special effects, even as the episode cleverly has Kathleen instead die at the hands of the little girl.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2023
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“Special effects.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/special%20effects. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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