livestream

present singular third person livestreams · participle present livestreaming · participle past livestreamed · past livestreamed · alternative live-stream · alternative live stream

1. transitiveTo broadcast as a live stream.

   Post Malone raised more than $500,000 for coronavirus relief by livestreaming a Nirvana tribute concert on YouTube.

   2020 April 25, Alaa Elassar, “Post Malone held a Nirvana tribute concert that raised over $500,000 for coronavirus relief”, in CNN, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2025

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   The plot revolves around an aimless and unemployed young man, M, whose sole ambition is to livestream his online games.

   2024 June 23, Sui-Lee Wee, “Why Southeast Asia Is Crying Over This Movie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2024

   One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

   2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2024

   Synonyms: stream

2. transitiveTo receive and watch as a live stream.

   I'm planning to livestream the football game this weekend.

plural livestreams · alternative live-stream · alternative live stream

1. alternativeAlternative form of live stream.

   In November, she expressed irritation with Sam, 29, in an awkward exchange on his livestream.

   2023 September 4, “Britney & Sam: It’s over!”, in In Touch Weekly, volume 22, number 36, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., page 23

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   He was arrested in March after an Instagram-savvy follower recognized the location of his livestream and called the cops, and Ross now faces 29 felony charges of vandalism.

   2018 July 12, Nuala Sawyer, “City Cracks Down on Graffiti Artists”, in SF Weekly, volume 37, number 29, San Francisco, Calif., page 10, column 1

   A few seconds before noon on a Monday, Jake Randall began encouraging people watching his livestream on YouTube to start refreshing Walmart’s website on their computers.

   2021 December 10, Kellen Browning, Julie Creswell, “Mad scramble for video game consoles is a cottage industry”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXXV, Hartford, Conn., page 11, column 4

   CNN and more than a dozen media outlets and groups asked US District Judge Tanya Chutkan for permission to “record and telecast” the March 2024 trial or for the court to “contemporaneously publish on YouTube its internally administered audiovisual livestreams and recordings of the proceedings.”

   2023 October 5, Devan Cole, “Media outlets ask judge for permission to broadcast Trump’s federal election subversion trial next year”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023